Study Guides

Short study guides for builders, and for anyone else who wants the same pages. Open a live guide and read it in the browser — no account. Items marked Coming soon are on the map so the collection is visible; they are not links.

Engineering / CS

• LLM & Agent Engineering Study Guide — How software engineers build LLM systems and agents, and how they prep the interviews.
• System Design Guide — How to reason through a system design interview and the building blocks behind it.
• Quant Research Guide — How a quant research workflow goes from hypothesis to a result you can defend.
• DevOps & Cloud Guide — How builders ship, observe, and run cloud systems for SWE, SRE, and platform interviews.

Finance

• Financial Engineering Guide — Pricing intuition and interview prep for derivatives, rates, and risk.
• Corporate Finance Guide — Capital structure, valuation, and the technical questions corp fin interviews ask.
• Accounting Guide — How to read the three statements and explain why a number moved.
• Corporate Bond Analysis Guide — How to read a corporate credit: spreads, covenants, and what can go wrong.

Founders

• Founders Interview Guide — How founders prep for YC-style accelerator interviews and early VC diligence.
• Startup Guide — The operating side of starting a company, separate from the interview guide.

This page is only the directory. Each guide keeps its own topics.