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Walk me through a project you're proud of.

302 6,480 people practisedUpdated Aug 28, 2026Question 26 of 30
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Tell it like a story: the problem, the constraints, the decisions you made and why, and the outcome. Go one level deeper than you think on technical choices — that's where interviewers probe.

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"I built a real-time fraud detection service for our payments platform. Transactions needed a decision in under 100 milliseconds, so I chose Kafka Streams with a local state store instead of calling a database per event. The trickiest part was handling late events, which I solved with a short grace window and a reconciliation job. We blocked €1.2M in fraud in the first quarter with a false positive rate under 0.5%."
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