For Students: How to Talk About Your Projects in an Interview

GDG Pittsburgh

You'll learn how to frame your projects as stories that make sense to both technical and non-technical interviewers, what details to lead with and what to skip, and how to answer follow-up questions without getting flustered.

Aug 3, 11:00 – 11:30 PM (UTC)

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Key Themes

Career Development

About this event

You built something. You can explain how it works technically. But when someone asks you to walk them through it in an interview, you freeze, ramble, or undersell it. That's not a you problem, nobody teaches this.

This session fixes that.

You'll learn how to frame your projects as stories that make sense to both technical and non-technical interviewers, what details to lead with and what to skip, and how to answer follow-up questions without getting flustered.

By the end of the session you'll know:

  • How to structure a project walkthrough that lands with any audience

  • What interviewers are actually listening for when they ask about your work

  • How to talk about projects that didn't go perfectly without tanking your chances

  • How to use your side projects and class work as proof of real skills

Whether your project is a class assignment, a personal build, or something from a hackathon, this session will help you turn it into something that gets you hired.

Organizers

  • Amanda Plashal

    MediaWow Partners, LLC.

    Lead Organizer

  • Andrés Plashal

    Bayesian & Priors

    GDG Pittsburgh Chapter Lead