Behavioral & Leadership Project Presentation (Software Engineer)

You are interviewing onsite for a Software Engineer role. Prepare a slide-style narrative of a recent project you led or significantly contributed to. Keep it to 6–10 slides.

Include:

1. Problem and goals — what you set out to achieve and why it mattered.
2. Constraints and context — scale, latency/cost/SLA, privacy/compliance, team, timeline.
3. Your role and key decisions — scope of ownership, choices, and rationale.
4. Architecture and design — high-level components, data/control flow, interfaces.
5. Metrics of success — how you measured correctness, performance, safety, and business impact.
6. Results — quantitative outcomes, adoption, and reliability.
7. Trade-offs — what you didn’t do, alternatives considered, risks accepted.

Then answer behavioral follow-ups:

• (a) Toughest challenge and how you resolved it.
• (b) A stakeholder conflict and how you aligned the team.
• (c) A mistake you made and what you changed afterward.
• (d) How you raised the bar or mentored others.