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After 19 years at Microsoft, John expected his track record to speak for itself. It didn't. A year into his search for an engineering manager role at Netflix, the interviews keep ending the same way. Steve Huynh has seen this before — the experience is all there, but the stories aren't showing it. He coaches John live on exactly what's getting in the way.

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Kenan is a senior frontend engineer with six years of experience trying to land his next senior role, and he has the stories to get there. A broken questionnaire costing real money, a production bug impossible to reproduce locally, and an end-to-end testing rollout the team fought back on.

What he's missing has nothing to do with experience — and everything to do with how he tells it. Three changes. One session. Watch it happen in real time. Steve Huynh coaches him live through every story.

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Ahmed is an AWS senior engineer with 12 years in the industry trying to break into staff — and he has the stories to get there. A four week migration with 20 partner teams, a disagreement with a principal engineer, two years leading a project end to end.

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Dhruv is an L5 engineer at Amazon with five and a half years of experience — and he's doing what 90% of smart engineers do in interviews: telling stories that sound great to him but get him down-leveled.

Steve Huynh, a former Amazon principal engineer who conducted nearly a thousand interviews as a bar raiser, coaches Dhruv live on the three things holding him back: decoding what the interviewer is actually asking, picking stories that land at L6, and packaging them so the interviewer can capture his signal before the debrief.

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