Behavioral Prompt: Project Leadership Walkthrough (Software Engineer)

Provide a concise, end-to-end walkthrough of a recent project you led. Address the following:

1. Problem context
   • What was broken or insufficient? Who were the users and constraints (latency, reliability, scale, compliance)?
2. Your responsibilities
   • What did you own (design, implementation, coordination, roadmap, experiments)? What was delegated?
3. Key technical decisions and trade-offs
   • Architecture choices, algorithms, data models, infra/services selected; what you considered and why you chose one path over alternatives.
4. Measurable outcomes
   • Baseline metrics, targets, final impact (latency, error rate, throughput, cost, engagement). Include numbers and how you measured them.
5. Collaboration
   • Which teams/roles you partnered with (e.g., PM, DS, SRE, infra, security), how you aligned on goals, and how you handled dependencies.
6. Setbacks and changing requirements
   • What went wrong or changed mid-flight; how you adapted, de-risked, or renegotiated scope.
7. What you would do differently
   • Concrete lessons learned and improvements for next time.

Aim for a structured, 3–5 minute response with specifics and metrics.