What is the hardest technical problem you have solved?
hard~30 min#behavioral#star#technical-depth
Describe the hardest technical problem you have personally solved.
This is the one question where the interviewer will follow you as deep as you can go — so choose depth over impressiveness. A well-understood tricky bug beats a vaguely-remembered distributed system every time, because the follow-ups are where the score is.
Write it as STAR in the story bank, then get it reviewed.
Solution
This one has no written solution — the answer is your own story or your own submission.
The follow-up they will ask
What was the first thing you tried, and what did its failure tell you?