Behavioral: Walk Through a Significant Project (Technical Screen — Software Engineer)

Provide a detailed walkthrough of one significant project you worked on. Be specific, quantify impact, and highlight your decision-making.

Address each of the following:

1. Project context and scope
   • What problem were you solving? Who was the user? What were the constraints (e.g., latency, scale, reliability, compliance)?
2. Your ownership and contributions
   • Exactly which components, decisions, and deliverables were yours vs. the team’s.
3. Key trade-offs and rationale
   • The options you considered, the criteria you used (e.g., latency, cost, complexity, time-to-market), and why you chose what you did.
4. Handling a tight schedule
   • A time when the schedule was very tight: how you prioritized, de-risked, de-scoped, or parallelized work.
5. Team and roles
   • Who else was on the project and each collaborator’s role.
6. Disagreements or conflicts
   • A disagreement, how you navigated it, and the outcome.
7. Timeline and milestones
   • Outline the major phases and checkpoints (e.g., design, implementation, testing, launch).
8. Success criteria and measurement
   • Define what success looked like and how you measured it (metrics, experiments, SLOs, cost, user impact).

Aim for a concise 5–7 minute walkthrough with follow-up depth if asked.