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Codeward

Interview prep that looks like the actual job — code review, debugging, low-level design, and the judgment rounds pattern-grinding skips.

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01/Why it exists

Practice what the job actually tests.

Grinding isolated algorithm problems teaches you to pass a specific kind of screen and little else. Real interviews — and the job that follows — ask you to reason about concurrency, catch a subtle bug in a diff, weigh trade-offs in a design, and explain why.

Codeward was built to practice those skills directly, with feedback that grades the mechanism, not just the answer.

02/What's inside

Seven modes, one focused platform.

DSA SheetsBlind 75, Striver’s, NeetCode 150, and a 500-problem company-tagged bank, grouped by pattern.
System DesignCurated questions by level, plus a challenge spinner that generates a fresh prompt to design against.
Code ReviewReal PRs with planted bugs; leave inline comments and get graded like a senior reviewer would.
Bug HuntBroken codebases with failing tests and logs; fix the code and diagnose the root cause.
Build ItStaged low-level-design problems in C#, Python, and Kotlin, with real code execution.
Deep DivesLong-form articles on the distributed-systems trade-offs interviews actually probe.
AI MentorGrounded in the prep content and aware of your progress, target company, and experience level.

03/The principles

Free, production-shaped, honestly graded.

Everything is free.No locked modes, no trial timer, no credit card. It’s a solo-built project, not a startup with a pricing page waiting to happen.

Production-shaped.The exercises are drawn from the failures that actually happen in production — races, N+1s, double charges, lost updates — because that’s what senior interviews test and what the job requires.

Honest feedback. Grading rewards understanding the specific failure mode, not reciting keywords.

04/Who it's for

For engineers who learn by doing.

Engineers preparing for backend, full-stack, and platform roles at product companies — from your first senior role to leveling up. If you learn best by doing the real thing and getting told where your reasoning breaks, this is built for you.

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