THE PROJECT ROUND
Forty-five minutes on one project of yours. You lead the walkthrough; an AI interviewer from your field listens, then digs into your decisions, what broke, the numbers and what you would do differently. Then a report scored the way panels score it, with the level your project read as, your decisions as a record and your project as a one-page brief.
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PROJECT DEEP DIVE
Listening
45 minutes · one project · you lead the walkthrough, then four passes: decisions, what broke, the numbers, hindsight
CHOOSE YOUR LENGTH
The 45-minute deep dive is the real round. The 20-minute screen version is how a first call runs it: the walkthrough, your decisions, what you would change. The five-minute pitch is your project in two minutes and one follow-up: three a day on Pro, no credit.
45 minutes
Walk your interviewer through one project. They listen, then dig into your decisions, what broke, the numbers and what you would do differently.
A report scored the way panels score it, the level your project read as, your decisions as a record, and your project as a one-page brief.
1 interview credit from the same balance. Pro required.
Practise the project deep dive20 minutes
The walkthrough, your decisions and what you would do differently: the deep dive as a first call runs it.
The same report from a shorter round, with the level read from what the round allowed.
1 interview credit from the same balance. Pro required.
Run the screen version5 minutes
Say your project in two minutes: what it was for, your part, the one decision that mattered, and what came of it. Then one follow-up.
Notes on the four pieces of a pitch and whether you ended on the outcome. No level read.
Included with Pro: 3 a day. No interview credits used.
Practise the pitchTHE ROUND, MINUTE BY MINUTE
How the round runs: you lead first, the questions come after. Attach a deck or write-up if you want the interviewer to read it first.
What it was for, your part, how it ended. The interviewer listens, says 'go on', and comes in at most twice for a piece you skipped.
The one that mattered most: what else you considered, what it cost, who decided, and how the thing you chose works a level down.
The part that went wrong, how you found out, what you did, the cause behind the cause, and what changed after.
What success meant before you started, the baseline and the after, and how much of it was yours.
What you would do differently, why not then, and what the lesson changed next.
Ask about the role and the company. The interviewer ends with the next step.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ASKED
The follow-ups a panel asks about a project, in the order they ask them. Yours come from your own project, in your field's words.
AFTER THE ROUND
Whether what you owned came through as yours, with the moments it did and did not.
Each decision you named, its options, its reason and its cost, as a record you can rehearse from.
The signals interviewers use to place a candidate: the unit you owned, who framed the problem, who decided, how far consensus had to reach, the time horizon, the fix. Junior to director, with three things that would move it.
The two-minute version, the decisions, what broke, the numbers and the lesson, in one page you can copy or save to your story bank.
AN EXAMPLE
Walked through a six-month migration off a legacy billing system.
Owned the cutover and data migration, with two engineers on the work.
Chose a regional rollout over one cutover, accepting a quarter of duplicate maintenance.
Named a rounding bug and the reconciliation check added after it.
Said failed invoices fell, but did not give the rate before the project.
Readiness for the deep dive: Getting there, because the decision was told with its cost but the numbers had no baseline.
Pick one you led, that shipped, with a decision and a setback. You need enough detail to explain what you did and why. A routine task, a tiny change or work you only watched gives the panel little to probe.
No. You can explain your project out loud, or attach a deck or write-up for the interviewer to read before the call. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown and text work. Export slides to PDF to show them in the room while you talk.
The interviewer takes a lens from your role and project: engineering, product, design, data, research, marketing, sales, operations, finance or general leadership. Engineers meet an engineer; designers meet a design director; sellers meet a VP of sales. It asks for facts it does not know.
Yes. Rename people and companies and round numbers when you need to. The interviewer takes the project as you tell it. Keep the decision, your part and the scale clear.
It is coaching on the evidence in this conversation, from junior to director. It explains the scope, decisions and influence your account showed. It is not a hiring decision or a judgement of your actual job level.
Look for the setback: a rejected option, a missed expectation, an assumption that failed or something you had to change. A panel needs to hear what you did when the plan met reality.
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The 20-minute screen covers your walkthrough, decisions and hindsight. Its level read explains that it comes from a shorter round. The five-minute drill is a two-minute pitch, one follow-up and notes on its four pieces. Pro includes three drills a day, with no interview credits used.
Checking your plan…
BETTER TOGETHER
Use the same company context and experience across your application and interview preparation.
TAKE YOUR NEXT STEP
One project, one interviewer from your field, four passes. Then the packet a panel would write about you.