Behavioral/Technical Screen: Recent Work and Project Deep-Dive

Context

You are in a technical screen for a Software Engineer role. The interviewer wants a clear, evidence-based walkthrough of what you have been doing recently and a deep dive into your most recent project. Provide concise, measurable details and distinguish your personal contributions from the team’s.

Prompt

1. Recent months overview
   • Are you currently employed full-time? If not, why not?
   • Summarize what you’ve been doing since your last role (e.g., contracting, open-source, learning, personal projects, interviews).
2. Most recent project deep-dive
   • Goal and scope: the problem, target users/stakeholders, constraints (latency, scale, cost, privacy/compliance).
   • Your role and responsibilities: what you personally owned end-to-end.
   • Key technical decisions: architecture, data models, interfaces, trade-offs and why.
   • Measurable results: KPIs, before/after metrics, benchmarks, cost/latency/throughput, reliability.
   • Ownership clarity: what you personally delivered vs. what the broader team handled.
   • Lessons learned and what you would do differently next time.

Keep your answer structured, quantifiable, and focused on impact.