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What is the piece of work you are proudest of, and why that one?
5 min readUpdated 2026-08-15Target archetype: Big Tech, Enterprise Captive, Product Startup
Answer
Short answer
Choose work whose value you can state in the terms the business used, explain why you are proud of it in a way that reveals your standards, and be ready to be precise about which parts were yours.
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Likely follow-ups
- Who else would claim this as their proudest work, and what would they say they did?
- Is it still running, and has anyone changed it since you left it?
- What is the part of it you would do completely differently now?
- What is the most valuable thing you have done that you are not proud of?
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