Behavioral Interview: Resume Walkthrough and Project Deep Dive

You are in an onsite Software Engineer interview. Provide a concise, outcome-focused walkthrough of your resume, then deep-dive on your most recent project.

Part 1: Resume Walkthrough (2–3 minutes)

Briefly walk through your background chronologically, highlighting themes, key responsibilities, and measurable impact for each role.

Part 2: Recent Project Deep Dive

For your most recent project, cover:

1. Problem context: What user/business problem were you solving? Scope and constraints.
2. Your responsibilities: What you owned end-to-end; your role vs. the team.
3. Key technical decisions and why: Options considered, rationale, trade-offs.
4. Measurable outcomes: Concrete metrics (e.g., latency, reliability, throughput, cost, revenue), baseline vs. after.
5. Hardest trade-off: The decision you struggled with, how you evaluated options, and why you chose the path you did.
6. One thing you’d do differently: What you learned and how you would improve the approach.