Behavioral: Impactful Project Deep-Dive (Software Engineer — Technical Screen)
Walk through one of your most impactful projects. Address the following:
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Problem: What problem were you solving and why did it matter (business/customer impact, technical symptoms, success metrics)?
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Your role and scope: What were you specifically accountable for (ownership, teammates, decision rights)?
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Technical decisions: What design/architecture choices did you make, what alternatives did you consider, and why?
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Constraints: Time, scale, legacy systems, compliance/security, budget, team capacity.
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Trade-offs and challenges: Performance vs. cost, consistency vs. availability, complexity vs. speed; key technical hurdles and how you resolved them.
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Collaboration: How you worked with PMs, SRE/infra, QA, data/analytics, design, leadership.
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Outcomes: Measurable results (latency, error rate, reliability/SLOs, adoption, revenue, costs). How did you validate impact?
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Retrospective: What you would do differently and why (learning, process, technical choices).
Time guidance: 3–5 minutes, with clear metrics and your personal contributions highlighted.