#project deep dive

5 project deep dive interview questions, asked at Google, Cohere, CoreWeave and 1 more company. Last asked Oct 2026.

Present a UX proposal and defend an AI-built prototypeBehavioralLockedDuring a project deep dive the interviewer sets a scenario: your team is engineers plus one UI designer, and you have to pitch how a feature should look and behave. What would…
Last asked Oct 2026
Why build it in-house instead of adopting an existing tool?BehavioralLockedWalk me through a project where your team built its own system. Tools that do this already exist, so why did you build one instead of adopting one of them?
Last asked Sep 2026
Defend your own research paper under hard questionsAI/ML designLockedYou present one of your own published papers to an interviewer who has already read it closely. They may skip your slides altogether and go straight at its weak points.
Last asked Sep 2026
Present and defend your researchBehavioralA research conversation with no coding. It has three steps: you introduce your own research, the interviewer probes the details of one project, and you close by saying which…
Last asked Jan 2026
Walk through a dashboard you built and improvedBehavioralTell me about a dashboard you built for business or product stakeholders. What was it for, who used it, and what did it measure? How did you make sure the numbers were right? Did…
Last asked Mar 2025