QUESTION 17 OF 25

Tell me your most successful program, project, or whatever you worked on that you were most proud of at your last job?

This is an interesting question in that it allows you to brag about your past accomplishments. When preparing to answer this type of question, you should use a program, project, or accomplishments related to the job for which you are interviewing. This will demonstrate to the interviewer that you can solve problems or accomplish objectives that are the same as those they have and for which they need to hire someone.

"Probably the accomplishment I am most proud of in my career was during my last position. The systems I was working on were used for online transaction processing or OLTP. There was a large volume of transactions, and the response time was extremely slow. My team and I investigated this and determined the tables' structure required multiple and repetitive queries for the data needed to complete the transactions. We restructured the tables, which resulted in a 60% decrease in processing time. This created a better customer experience and resulted in a 25% increase in sales during the next quarter."

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