Mock Interview: Project Deep Dive

"Pick one project that you led and that crossed team boundaries. Give me about five minutes on it, and then I will ask questions until we run out of time."

With that sentence, the interviewer starts a 45-minute round, the shorter end of the usual 45 to 60 minutes. The round is usually called a project deep dive, and some companies call it a project retrospective. The first five minutes are the candidate's own. The other 40 are spent on the interviewer's questions, and the answers to those questions decide the result.