Module 2 · The interview conversation Lesson 5 of 15

The project story: problem, decision, result

Worked example

"The export had duplicate rows, so I deduplicated on order id after checking whether the duplicates were real or re-imports" is a decision. "I cleaned the data" is a summary, and it gives the interviewer nothing to ask about.

Your practice task

Write your best project as those four beats on one page, then say it out loud in under two minutes without reading.

Do this before moving on. Reading a solution teaches the shape of it; typing it teaches you.

Key takeaway

Interviewers ask about your project to find out how you think, not what you built. Four beats: what problem, what you chose and why, what went wrong, what the result was.

Almost there

15 lessons left of 15

Finish every lesson to unlock the certificate. Each one ends in a practice task — do them and the final project brief writes itself.