Jon Rosado

Jon Rosado

Building the interview copilot for FAANG

About

Hey 👋 I'm building faangcoder.ai — an interview co-pilot for engineers prepping for FAANG, quant, and high-bar startup loops. Big Tech interviews are broken. They don't measure how you'd actually engineer something on the job, they measure recall under constraints that look nothing like a real codebase. Strong engineers get filtered out because they froze on a tree-DP problem they hadn't touched in two years. faangcoder doesn't replace prep, and it won't turn an unprepared candidate into a hire. It gives prepared candidates a real engineering environment: AI-assisted autocomplete that matches your style, debug and optimize passes that explain the why instead of patching the what, and continuous context from solve → debug → optimize across a whole session. Launching soon 🚀

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Nika

2mo ago

Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?

  1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

  2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

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