Project Clinics
The first question is easy. It is the third one that decides.
Interviewers rarely stop at 'tell me about your project'. They follow what you say. A professional who has interviewed freshers reads your project and asks what an interviewer would, so that the hard questions are not new when they come.
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Interviewers use the project to test everything else.
A fresher has little work history. The project is where the interviewer can test fundamentals, problem-solving, honesty and communication in one conversation, using something the student should know well.
The questions are not meant to trap anyone. They follow whatever the student says. A student who says 'I used a database' will be asked which one and why. A student who says 'I used MongoDB because it is fast' will be asked what fast means here.
That is why the questions can be predicted. This session predicts them for each project.
The kinds of questions that come
22 topics across 6 areas. Six kinds. The professional picks the ones that fit each project.
Why This?Questions about choices.4
- Why this problem
- Why this language, framework or database
- What else did you consider
- What would you pick today
How Does It Work?Questions about the inside.4
- What happens when a user does the main thing, step by step
- Where is the data stored, and in what shape
- What does the central piece of logic do
- Walk me through one function you wrote
What Breaks?Questions about limits.4
- What happens with bad input
- What happens with ten thousand users instead of ten
- What did you not test
- What is the weakest part
How Do You Know It Works?Questions about checking.3
- How did you test it
- What does 'accurate' or 'correct' mean here
- What numbers do you have, and from where
What Was Hard?Questions about you.4
- The hardest bug
- A disagreement in the team
- Something that took longer than planned
- What you learned that was not in the syllabus
What Next?Questions about thinking ahead.3
- What you would add with another three months
- What you would remove
- How a real company would use it
Answering what you do not know
- Saying 'I do not know' plainly, then saying how you would find out
- Not guessing confidently
- Going back to what you do know
- Admitting that a part came from a library or a template
What participants leave with
- Ten likely questions for their own project
- Three of them marked as not yet answerable, with a plan to fix that
- A calmer idea of what the interview will feel like
How the session runs
The team presents briefly. The professional asks questions as an interviewer would, one after another, and then explains why each one was asked. Teams note the questions and the gaps they show. The college chooses the date and the teams.
What your students leave with
- A list of follow-up questions for your own project
- An idea of which of them you cannot yet answer
- A way to answer 'I don't know' that works in an interview
- An understanding of why interviewers ask what they ask
- Time to prepare before the real interview, not after
Scheduled sessions
Nothing scheduled yet
Sessions are arranged with a college once a date is agreed. Ask us and we will find the right person for it.
A student rather than a college? See what is coming up, or ask your placement team to host this.
Hear the questions here, and the interview is a second time round.
Tell us who your students are and what stage they are at. Sessions are free for participants.