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I am very comfortable with algorithmic and system design questions. However, what I am struggling with is articulating past experiences. Throughout my last 5 years at my previous employer, I didn't jot down in my personal notes any accomplishments or technical designs. And my memory is so rusty now that I have a hard time reciting them. I understand this is squarely my fault. Wondering if you have any advice on approaching my next job? (senior / manager role)

I am on the first leg of your journey. Quit my extremely high paying FAANG job to co-found a startup as a CTO. We raised a crazy amount of money for seed. I am just so burnt out (and genuinely feel I am not qualified for the job). I want to swallow my pride and call it quit despite the company is doing ok with a lot of cash left in the bank.

But two things keep me going (in an unhealthy way): 1. My ego and embarrassment 2. credibility with the investor network we built up. It's not sustainable for my mental health but I frankly don't know what my next steps are yet.

All I can say is best of luck to you. I would love to hear how you bounce back from the VC-funded burn to bootsrap another one.

Does anyone have practical engineering blogs on big SwiftUI / Swift app architectures? I am trying to wrap my head around all things MVVM, Clean architecture, Coordinator, and Navigator. Individually, I understand the concepts but in practice I have a hard time splitting things into individual components