What if an interviewer asks about a part of my project I did not build?
Be honest. If you used a library you did not write or a feature a teammate built, be clear about it. Claiming credit for work that is not yours breaks trust, and interviewers can tell when you cannot explain a piece of code.
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Start with one sentence describing what it does, explain your role, walk through the architecture, justify your major choices, describe a hard problem you solved, name what you would improve, and be ready to zoom in on any part.
Because it shows engineering judgment. Explaining why you chose Firebase over a custom backend, or React Query over Redux, shows you made deliberate decisions rather than copying a tutorial blindly. Interviewers value judgment.
Yes. Walking through a specific bug and how you debugged it is far more convincing than listing what you built. Specifics show real problem-solving and that you genuinely worked on the code, not just followed a guide.
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