🏆Criticalmedium20-25 minutes
What is your most proud piece of work?
achievementspridetechnical-depthimpactcritical
🎯 What Interviewers Are Looking For
- ✓Genuine passion for your work
- ✓Ability to go deep on something meaningful
- ✓Technical depth combined with product thinking
- ✓Understanding of impact beyond just code
- ✓Self-reflection on what makes work meaningful
📋 STAR Framework Guide
Structure your answer using this framework:
S - Situation
What you built and the context
T - Task
Why this work was challenging and meaningful
A - Action
How you approached it and the technical decisions you made
R - Result
The impact and why you're genuinely proud
💬 Example Answer
⚠️ Pitfalls to Avoid
- ✗Being vague about what you actually built
- ✗Only talking about personal achievement, not impact
- ✗Not explaining WHY you're proud
- ✗Making it sound easy (no challenges overcome)
- ✗Choosing something too simple or too long ago
- ✗Not being able to go deep on technical details
💡 Pro Tips
- ✓Pick ONE project and go very deep
- ✓Show both technical depth AND product thinking
- ✓Explain the tradeoffs you made and why
- ✓Include the 'aha moment' when you knew it was good
- ✓Quantify the impact (30% reduction, 99% uptime)
- ✓Be genuine about why it matters to you personally
- ✓Prepare to answer deep follow-up questions
🔄 Common Follow-up Questions
- →What would you do differently if you rebuilt it?
- →What was the hardest part?
- →How did you measure success?
- →What did you learn that you've applied elsewhere?
🎤 Practice Your Answer
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