Career coaching

The moves that decide your career.

One-on-one coaching for software engineers, tech leads and engineering managers, from a principal engineer who sits in interview loops, reviews promotion packets and gives calibration input.

What we work on

Six things we can fix.

Interview prep

For engineers heading into senior, staff or principal loops.

Mock interviews and debriefs from someone who sits on the other side of the table: system design, behavioral and the story that ties them together.

Mock loop with written feedback

Offers and negotiation

For anyone holding an offer, or about to.

We read the level, the comp structure and how much room you really have, then plan what to ask for and how to say it.

A negotiation plan and the words to use

Promotion strategy

For engineers who feel ready and keep hearing "not yet."

The mechanics from the show, applied to you: scope, evidence, sponsorship and how your case reads in calibration.

A promotion plan for the next cycle

Leadership and influence

For tech leads, staff engineers and new managers.

Leading without authority, managing up, running hard conversations and getting your decisions to stick.

Moves you can make this quarter

Staying relevant as AI rises

For engineers rethinking their path as AI writes more of the code.

Which skills keep their value, where the role is heading, and how to reposition before you have to.

A plan for the next two years

Résumé and packet review

For a résumé, a promotion packet or a self-review that has to land.

A close read with line-level edits, focused on what reviewers and hiring committees actually look for.

Marked-up document, returned in writing
How it runs

Every session ends in writing.

  1. STEP 1Intro call

    Fifteen minutes, free. You tell me where you're stuck, and I tell you plainly whether I can help.

  2. STEP 2Your situation, in writing

    A short note before we meet, so our time goes straight to the work.

  3. STEP 3Working sessions

    Live, one on one, with a written summary of your next moves after each one.

  4. STEP 4The follow-up

    A check-in after the interview, offer or calibration it was all for.

Single sessions or a short series, whatever the situation needs. Rates are shared on the intro call.

Saeid Manhooei
Between us

What you share stays between us. I keep my day job out of it: no inside information, and no coaching on processes at my current employer.

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