From the course: Job Interview Tips for Software Engineers

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- Let's see how a candidate might answer this question and I'll be right back with some feedback. - I once worked at a small interactive design shop where we typically worked with large clients who would outsource their marketing campaigns to us. We would create a marketing strategy in partnership with the company and then build a technical platform to drive that strategy. As such, the engineers at our shop were not majorly empowered. They did not feel like the leadership would listen to them. Unfortunately, a work culture formed where the engineers were order takers. We did receive a very cool assignment from a company that wanted to market laptops to college students. The marketing team decided that creating an infographic with the student's social media activity would be the way to go. As a solo engineer on the project, my job was to implement the APIs, collect data from Facebook and Twitter and to make the…

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