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A MongoDB SWE recommended core prep materials — Cracking the Coding Interview and The System Design Interview — plus guided Udemy courses for live coding and system design, noting they spent 3+ hours weekly while staffing a backups team in Dublin. (x.com)
Daniel Blanco lists himself as a Software Engineer at MongoDB and an Udemy instructor with roughly 32,000 students and a 4.7/5 rating across his courses. (danielblanco.dev) His public bio notes past work in Spain and Ireland and a current base in Vienna, while MongoDB names Dublin as its international headquarters. (danielblanco.dev) Public MongoDB job postings for the Private Cloud Backup role in Dublin describe the Backup Team’s mission as enabling fast, reliable, and cost‑efficient point‑in‑time restores for massive distributed databases. (ie.indeed.com) A preserved copy of the original post has been archived by third‑party services, confirming the author’s account of studying several core interview texts and guided courses while staffing backups in Dublin. (trutharchive.ai) Top Udemy system‑design prep courses show six-figure enrollments for bestsellers and are repeatedly recommended in course-roundup reviews as practical, mock‑interview–focused training. (udemy.com) Open-source alternatives commonly paired with paid courses include the heavily starred "system‑design‑primer" GitHub repository, which aggregates patterns, case studies, and interview walkthroughs. (github.com) Blanco’s public GitHub contains repositories for algorithms and software‑architecture course materials, indicating he publishes sample problems and project skeletons that mirror his paid course content. (github.com)
