Thanks for your interest about the FDE Industry Mentor role at The Residency (
https://residency.dev/)! We're glad you're here and would love to get to know you.
Three prompts. Write as much as you need. Most strong responses land in the suggested ranges. We can tell when essays are AI-drafted. It's not disqualifying, but it doesn't help. We want to hear you think.
Walk us through the hardest real AI deployment you've personally owned. What was the stated problem, and what was the actual problem? What did you ship, and what did you cut? What would you do differently if you ran it again?
Describe a time you made a call a junior engineer on your team couldn't yet see, and how you taught them to see it. If you don't have a direct teaching example, walk us through how you would have structured the handoff.
Why this part-time mentor role rather than another full-time FDE job or going back to building something of your own? What draws you to working with residents rather than customers directly?
Two references from recent deployments. We hold these confidential and will not reach out without asking you first.
