Explain a past project and critique a prior team

Interview prompts

1. Project deep dive: Pick a past project you worked on and walk through it end-to-end. Be ready to use a whiteboard to explain architecture, trade-offs, and your specific contributions.
2. Team reflection: What problems did you observe in your previous team/org (process, collaboration, code quality, ownership, etc.)? What would you change, and how would you influence that change as a junior engineer?

What to cover

• Your role, scope, and impact.
• Key technical decisions and why.
• A challenge or conflict and how you handled it.
• Lessons learned and what you would do differently.