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Interview Time:  
November 15, 2025 10:00 AM
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Targeted Level:  
Junior/Mid/Senior

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Strengths

  • Strong Opening: You led with a clearly articulated vision, which helped set the direction for the presentation.

  • Terminology Alignment: Your effort to define and align on terminology early—especially the reordering for clarity—was well received.

  • Clear Mission Statement: Framing the project’s goal as “client-side phishing protection” gave immediate clarity to the audience.

  • Engaging Delivery: You actively invited audience questions, showing confidence and adaptability.

  • Modeling Approach: You were able to contrast client-side and server-side detection approaches across multiple dimensions, which helped demonstrate system-level thinking.

  • Impact-Oriented: You included some numeric metrics when discussing results, which made the impact more tangible.

Areas for Improvement

Presentation Structure & Communication

  • Please open with your name, current role, company, and time frame of the project to establish credibility and show respect for your audience.

  • Too many “we” or “our” phrases throughout diluted clarity on your personal contributions. Interviewers were unclear on what exactly you owned.

  • Add specificity when stating vague terms like “no comprehensive ground truth”—explain what qualifies as comprehensive and why that’s an issue.

  • Clearly state where the ground truth data came from (e.g., external vendors) to build credibility and close the loop on interviewer questions.

  • Refactor your narrative using a structured storytelling framework:


    • Context / background of the business problem

    • Challenges and project goals

    • Quantifiable success metrics

    • Explored options and decision-making rationale

    • Architecture, implementation, testing, deployment

    • Operational ownership: migration, governance, deprecation

    • Final impact

    • Key learnings

    • Future roadmap

Content Gaps & Depth

  • Screenshots on page 3 were not clear—consider zoomed-in visuals or annotations for clarity.

  • On page 4, technical challenges (e.g., “100k images” or “model released every 2 weeks”) didn’t land as convincing difficulties—elaborate on scale, latency requirements, SLAs, or integration overheads.

  • Define technical terms like “TFLite” or “SavedModel” for a generalist audience to ensure clarity.

  • Your strategy comparison on page 6 was confusing—try summarizing with a table and highlighting trade-offs.

  • Summary on page 6 needs a crisper framing; highlight decision points, results, and takeaway.

System Design Specifics

  • On page 5, separate online vs offline components in your system design. This helps interviewers reason about latency, availability, and client/server interaction.

  • When you mentioned elevating alerts from 100k to 300k, clarify the baseline false positive rate. Otherwise, increasing alerts might suggest lower precision.

  • Specify the future evolution of the project and outline the timeline across phases.

  • Revisit your section on technical challenges—as currently phrased, they don’t reflect sufficient complexity or depth expected at your level.