Walking Through a Project
One project: what you did, what went wrong, what came out.
- Them
Tell me about a project you're proud of.
- You
I built a payment feature used by many customers.
- Them
What was the hardest part of it?
- You
Handling failures without losing anyone's money.
- Them
How did you approach that?
- You
We wrote tests for every failure we could imagine.
- Them
Did anything still go wrong?
- You
One bug reached users, and we fixed it that day.
In the app you can tap any word for a definition, and turn on a line-by-line translation in your own language.
Words in this dialogue
- tellto say something to someone
- projecta planned piece of work
- you'reshort for you are
- proudpleased with what you or yours have done
- builtpast form of build
- paymentmoney given for something
- featuresomething a product can do
- usedput to work; not new
- manya large number of
- customerspeople who buy something
- hardestmost difficult
- parta piece of the whole
- handlingto deal with
- failurestimes when something did not work
- withoutnot having
- losingto no longer have
- anyone'sbelonging to any person
- moneynotes, coins and what you pay with
- approacha way of doing something
- wrotepast form of write
- testschecks
- everyeach one
- failurenot succeeding
- imagineto form a picture in your mind
- anythingany thing at all
- stillup to now; without bubbles
- wrongnot correct
- reachedarrived at
- userssomeone who uses something
- fixedto repair; to sort out
More in this situation
- Introducing Yourself8 turns
- Talking About Strengths8 turns
- Talking About Weaknesses8 turns
- Working With Others8 turns
- Talking About Salary8 turns
- Asking Your Own Questions8 turns
- Explaining a Gap8 turns
- Asking About Remote Work8 turns
- A Phone Screen8 turns
- Following Up After the Interview8 turns
- Getting an Offer8 turns
- Turning an Offer Down8 turns
- Giving References8 turns
- A Take-Home Task8 turns