Walk through your background and proud project
Company: Discord
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Behavioral & Leadership
Difficulty: hard
Interview Round: HR Screen
## Interview prompts (behavioral)
1. **Walk me through your background and experience.**
- Focus on roles, scope, impact, and how your experience relates to a **persistence / database-infrastructure** team.
2. **Tell me about a specific project you’re proud of.**
- What was the problem?
- What was your role and what did you personally deliver?
- What was the measurable impact (latency, cost, availability, developer velocity, incidents reduced, etc.)?
- What trade-offs did you make?
3. **Do you have on-call experience?**
- Describe an incident you handled end-to-end.
- How did you communicate, mitigate, and prevent recurrence?
Overview: This question evaluates communication, ownership, and technical leadership related to persistence and database-infrastructure, including on-call incident handling, impact measurement, and trade-off justification.