Why justify my technical choices in an interview?
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.
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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.
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.
Yes. Honest candidates name what they would improve with more time: tests, types, performance, a real backend. Self-awareness impresses more than pretending the project was perfect, and shows a growth mindset.
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