Behavioral Onsite Prompt — Role Walkthrough, Project Deep Dive, and Professional Growth

Context: You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role. Provide a structured, concise narrative that a first-time listener can follow. Timebox your answer to ~5–7 minutes.

Please cover the following:

1. Professional Growth Outside of Work

• Share 2–3 activities (e.g., open-source, courses, reading groups, side projects, mentoring).
• For each: what you did, why you chose it, and one concrete way it improved your on-the-job performance.

2. Current Role Overview

• Team mission and product/scope.
• Your ownership areas and typical stakeholders (e.g., PM, infra, data, SRE).
• Key metrics you’re accountable for (e.g., latency SLOs, reliability, cost, adoption).

3. One Resume Project Deep Dive

• (a) Goal and context/problem statement.
• (b) Your specific contributions (be explicit about your role vs. the team’s).
• (c) Key technical decisions and trade-offs (e.g., architecture, data structures, concurrency model, tooling).
• (d) Impact metrics (latency, throughput, reliability, cost, adoption, developer velocity).
• (e) What you’d do differently with hindsight.

4. Close with Curiosity

• Ask two thoughtful questions about our product and our team that show genuine interest and signal how you evaluate fit.