Behavioral Prompt: Walk Through Your Most Recent Project
Context: Technical screen for a Software Engineer. Provide a concise, data-backed walkthrough of a recent engineering project you contributed to or led.
Please cover:
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Problem and Users
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What problem were you solving? Who were the users and why did it matter?
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Scope and Constraints
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Goals and success criteria
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Timeline/milestones
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Stakeholders and team size/roles
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Scale (traffic, data size, platforms) and key constraints (e.g., performance, reliability, privacy, security)
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Your Responsibilities
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What you owned or led
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Key technical decisions and rationale
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Impact and Measurement
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Metrics baseline vs. results, how you measured, and validation methodology
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Trade-offs and Challenges
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Alternatives considered, trade-offs made, risks, failures, and how you mitigated them
Keep your answer structured, concrete, and quantifiable.