Your Staff loop. Your first team. Your next move.
1:1 interview and leadership coaching for senior engineers and engineering managers, from someone who's sat on every side of the table: candidate, hiring manager, promo approver.
Maybe you've got a Staff loop in a few weeks and you're not sure your stories will hold up under follow-ups. Maybe you just inherited your first team and the playbook that made you a great engineer suddenly doesn't work. Maybe you're weighing two offers, or no offers, and trying to figure out what's next.
Wherever you are, we start from your actual situation, not a generic mock or one-size-fits-all advice. I'll help you turn what you've done into clear signal at the level you're reaching for, so you walk in calm and walk out with the result.
"Deep understanding of what interviewers look for at Senior/Staff level, not just coding, but system-design thinking, technical leadership, and communication. I felt far more confident."
I've been on every side of the table I coach you for: job seeker, hiring manager, promo approver.
As a hiring manager at AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, Compass, and Workiva, I've conducted 100+ technical interviews, made 40+ hiring decisions, and promoted engineers to Staff and Principal while coaching ICs into EM and Director roles. I know what gets someone hired, and how to navigate the career maze that comes after. Every session is 1:1, direct, and grounded in your situation. Never one-size-fits-all advice.
I spent years deciding who got hired and who got promoted. Now I help you be the obvious yes.
For most of my career I wasn't the one being interviewed. I was the one writing the debrief. As a hiring manager at AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, Compass, and Workiva, I sat in the rooms where the call actually gets made: who clears the bar, who gets the offer, whose promotion goes through.
What I kept seeing was the same pattern: strong engineers, clearly good enough, getting a "no" anyway. Not for lack of ability, but because the room never got to see it. The signal was buried, the scope didn't land, one shaky round sank the loop. That's fixable.
So now I work the other side of the table. Every session is 1:1, direct, and grounded in your actual situation: your loop, your team, your next move. I help you make what you've done impossible to miss.
Three steps. No generic mocks.
Pick the session that fits your situation, your goals and timeline, and grab a time on my calendar.
Before we meet I review your background, target role, and the exact loop or challenge ahead.
One focused, collaborative conversation grounded in your reality. You leave with specific, tailored next steps.
Check availability and book your session today.
Every session ends with custom, tailored recommendations grounded in your background, experience, and the situation in front of you. FAANG+, MANGOS, high-growth tech companies and AI-native startups. Staff/Principal prep, engineering manager coaching, and career advisory.
- →Pre-session background review
- →Thorough follow-up questions that dig into the details
- →Detailed written feedback
- →System design, behavioral, leadership principles, project deep-dive/retro
- →Progress tracking between sessions
- →Company-specific resource guide
Additional Services
Every session, grouped by where you are. Collapse any category you want to skip.
Coaching spans the full management craft: product delivery, operational excellence, and career planning, not just interviews.
- →1:1s that build real trust
- →Feedback to former peers
- →How to handle crucial conversations, promotion, and your first performance issue
- →Structured decision framework
- →Honest readiness assessment
- →What the EM career looks like in year one and beyond
- →Clarify what you truly want
- →Map your strengths to the next move
- →Leave with a concrete next step
- →Narrative rebuild for interviews
- →Direction before applying
- →How to talk about the layoff
- →Full situation assessment
- →Values & trajectory alignment
- →A specific, actionable plan
Be the CEO of your career.
Most candidates prep a handful of stories, then freeze the moment the question shifts. I help you shape your experience across multiple angles, so you're ready for anything they throw at you, and know how to steer any question back to the points you want to land.
I help you develop the right tools, and know which one to reach for. We surface your real strengths and sharpen the stories that set you apart.
Tell that story well, and you'll walk into every room and shine, on your own terms, at whatever your next level is.
Every review, five stars.
“Mohamad has deep expertise in leadership questions, hiring-manager rounds, and cross-functional scenarios. His tips were practical and targeted, he helped me pass both the culture and hiring-manager rounds.”
“The session felt like a true, in-depth mentoring session. Mohamad challenged my reasoning with realistic follow-ups and used his industry experience to surface blind spots I didn’t know I had.”
“Deep understanding of what interviewers look for at Senior/Staff level, not just coding, but system-design thinking, technical leadership, and communication. I felt far more confident.”
“Mohamad reached out before the session to ask how I wanted the mock to go and adjusted to my needs. Clear feedback right after, plus helpful resources at the end. Looking forward to more.”
Before you book.
Senior engineers, tech leads, and engineering managers, from Staff and Principal candidates to first-time EMs, Senior EMs, and Directors. If you are operating at or reaching for the next level in tech, you are who I coach.
We meet 1:1 over video. I research your background and goals before we start, we work live on what matters most, and you leave with a specific, actionable plan.
Yes. Life and on-call happen. Reschedule up to 24 hours before and we will find a new time, no friction.
Always. Your job search, your company, and everything we discuss stays strictly between us.
Payment is collected upfront at booking through Calendly. Sessions are 60 minutes over video.
Bring your goals, your blockers, your hardest decisions. We'll map the path from there.
Prepping for an interview, learning to lead, or figuring out what's next, book the session that fits your situation, your goals and timeline.
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