Study routes

Do not read every page in order. Start with the knowledge-gap audit, select a route, and spend most review time explaining mechanisms and trade-offs aloud.

Laravel interview route

1. Type system and language semantics
2. Request lifecycle, container, providers, and facades
3. Routing, middleware, and model binding
4. Validation, authorization, policies, and tenant boundaries
5. Eloquent model mechanics and relationships
6. Testing Laravel applications
7. Queues, events, listeners, notifications, and retries
8. Laravel interview questions

Senior backend route

1. Databases, indexes, and concurrency
2. Distributed systems and reliability
3. Performance and scalability
4. Application security
5. Deployment and operations
6. Software design and DDD
7. System design
8. Architecture and leadership questions

PHP internals route

1. Type system and language semantics
2. Object model
3. Arrays, values, and comparison
4. Runtime, memory, OPcache, and process models
5. Composer, autoloading, and standards
6. PHP interview questions

Effective review loop

For each selected topic:

1. Explain it from memory in two minutes.
2. Read only to identify corrections, missing terminology, or weak causal links.
3. Answer one precision, one diagnosis, and one decision question.
4. Revisit the weakest explanation later rather than rereading the entire topic.