Interview Coachv1.2
Stripe onsite — 18 June · in 24 days PJ
Twelve sessions · Stripe-shaped staff loop · 24 days out

Tracking Approaching for a Stripe-shaped staff system-design loop. Strongest on Recovery; the one gap left is Framing.

The trend on Recovery is your most reliable signal — you have crossed the bar in five of your last seven sessions. Framing is the dimension to close: every session where you missed the bar, you went architecture-first. Two prescribed framing drills are queued for tomorrow. Loop in 24days .

Competence across the last twelve sessions

Five dimensions, scored against the published staff system-design rubric.
Framing Signal Evidence Recovery — strongest Pacing
AT BAR ABOVE BELOW SESSION 042
WK 1WK 3WK 5WK 7WK 9WK 11WK 12
Framing Approaching +0.4 over 12 sessions
Signal At bar +0.8 — crossed wk 8
Evidence Approaching +0.5 over 12 sessions
Recovery Above bar +1.3 — strongest
Pacing At bar +0.2 — held steady
What changed this week · written from your last three scorecards

Recovery is now your strongest dimension — you crossed Above bar on session 042 by restating the thundering-herd failure mode in your own words before the room had to suggest a bound. The remaining gap is Framing. Every session where you missed the bar, you drew architecture before quantifying load. Two prescribed framing drills should close it inside a week.

The prescription engine queued "Restate the read/write ratio inside ninety seconds" for tomorrow and "Quantify three numbers before the first box" for Friday.

Dimension trend · the last twelve

Sparklines = framing→pacing over 12 sessions
Framing
Quantify before you draw.
Approaching +0.4
Signal
Find the trade-off without prompting.
At bar +0.8
Evidence
Three numbers, defended on screen.
Approaching +0.5
Recovery
Restate the failure before the room does.
Above bar +1.3
Pacing
Twenty-five to thirty-five minutes, in proportion.
At bar +0.2

Recent scorecards

Sorted newest first · last six of twelve

Notification fan-out at Twitter scale · system design

24 May · 19:4828mStaff · drill 042

Estimate annual revenue for a chain of coffee shops in Lisbon · case math

22 May · 18:1424mSenior · drill 117

Design rate limiting for Stripe's public API · system design

20 May · 21:0231mStaff · drill 028

Tell me about a time you disagreed with a manager · behavioral

17 May · 20:3415mStaff · drill 091

Design a chat backend for a thousand concurrent rooms · system design

14 May · 19:0833mStaff · drill 015

Walk me through a project you led end-to-end · behavioral

12 May · 21:2122mStaff · drill 088

Progress is a competence chart, not a casino. No streaks, no XP, no badges. The only number that matters is whether your framing improved from session to session.