Challenges You Solved and Did-You-Build-It Questions
50 min · Intermediate
"Tell me about a challenge you faced" and "show me where that happens" are the questions that separate a project you built from a project you copied. Prepared stories plus real knowledge of your own code answer both.
Topics in this lesson
- STAR for a technical challenge
- Three stories to prepare: a bug, a performance fix, a design change
- Probing questions: "show me where", "what if it is null?"
- Red flags interviewers notice in copied projects
Interview questions this lesson answers
- What is the STAR format?
- How long should a challenge story be?
- What makes a good result line in a STAR story?
- Tell me about a challenge you faced in your project.
- What was the hardest bug you fixed?
- Show me where the order is saved in your code.
- What happens if this input is null?
- How did you find that performance problem?
- How do I know you wrote this code and did not copy it?
- What if you do not remember why some code in your project is there?
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