Project Review

Fin's prompt: "Walk us through a machine learning project you've worked on."

TEMPLATE: fill in with your real project. Nothing below is real content yet.

• Project title / name
• Timeline (when was it done)
• Organization / team (where and with whom)
• Your role (your involvement)

Presenter notes: what Fin is optimizing for

Fin's own tips for this round:

• Choose a project where you were deeply involved as a hands-on IC
• Prefer something delivered in production as part of an ML product, over pure research
• Relative uplift without absolute numbers is fine if the numbers are proprietary
• If something didn't work, say so. Fin values critical thinking and honest reflection
• Keep it conversational

Staff/Senior signal to aim for: cross-team or org-level scope, ambiguity you handled, defensible tradeoffs, and quantified impact, not just technical depth.

TEMPLATE: Problem Statement

Fin wants to hear:

• What problem were you trying to solve
• Who was affected, and how did you know it was important
• Was this part of a larger business or research initiative

Fill in with your real project's problem statement.

TEMPLATE: Discovery & Understanding

Fin wants to hear:

• How did you approach understanding the problem
• What data was available (or missing)
• Domain-specific constraints or challenges

Fill in with what you actually did.

TEMPLATE: Technical Approach and Experimentation

Fin wants to hear:

• What methods, models, or techniques did you consider; what worked and what didn't
• How did you evaluate or compare approaches
• Unexpected challenges or pivots
• Tools, libraries, or platforms worth noting

Fill in with your real methods and decisions.

TEMPLATE: Results & Evaluation

Fin wants to hear:

• Was the project successful, and how do you know
• How did you measure outcomes (metrics, business impact)
• Quantitative or qualitative results

Fill in with your real results. Relative uplift is fine if absolute numbers are proprietary.

TEMPLATE: Collaboration & Teamwork

Fin wants to hear:

• Who else was involved, and how did you work together
• Which decisions were collaborative vs individual
• Cross-functional partnerships (product, design, data engineering)

Fill in with who you actually worked with.

TEMPLATE: Learnings & Reflections

Fin wants to hear:

• What did you learn
• What would you do differently
• Follow-up work or impact beyond the initial project

Fill in with your own honest reflection.

TEMPLATE: Q&A / Discussion

Prompts to remember for this part:

• Answer questions as they come, not just at the end
• Be ready to dive deeper into decisions and results
• Discuss tradeoffs and alternatives
• Reflect on how this fits the bigger business context