Project Deep Dive is an interview style we use across various roles to determine a candidate’s skills in project management, collaboration with others and decision making.

Interview format

In the project deep dive we'll ask you to walk us through a project you worked on in the past that best demonstrates your skills. This interview starts with a short presentation from you (taking no more than 20-25% of the interview time) and then we’ll move into a conversation. To support your presentation, you can bring diagrams or even slides if you prefer. At minimum, we encourage you to spend some time to select the project and to prepare a clear outline of what you would like to cover.

Picking a project

Please pick a project that ideally has already been finished so that we can look at your abilities end-to-end. We also want to hear about projects that best demonstrate the breadth & depth of your skills. Feel free to use your Isometric point of contact to brainstorm ideas and help you select a project.

What we want to understand about your project

• What was it? What problem did it solve? What was the outcome at the end?
• What was your role in it?
• Can you describe how it worked / how it was built?
• What key technical decisions had to be made?
• What did your collaboration with other team members look like?
• What did you learn from it? What would you do differently next?

Skills we’re looking for

• Ability to learn from decisions made; analyzing technical & business trade-offs
• Ability to collaborate with others and resolve conflicts
• Depth of level in understanding of the technical matter the project is solving
• Ability to effectively project manage and drive successful outcomes