Was looking online and didn’t find any concrete examples, I’m trying to prepare for new grad interviews ^_^ TC: $30/hour
It means they want you to be able to drive all parts of a project you’re assigned to if needed. Usually not really expected if you’re a new grad, but a full-fledged version of someone doing that is driving the project from ground up w/ partner engineers, PMs, designers, etc to build requirements for a project, set accurate estimated completion dates, execute on time, and maintain it as needed. If you can do all this excellently on feature level, you become a mid level engineer. If you can do this on larger scale, you become senior and so on.
oh I see so on a small scale could I talk about how I planned out all the steps of my internship project and how I coordinated with people to finish it?
Exactly. Usually the levels of engineers are dependent on what scale can you do this on. For example, a principal or lead engineer will do this on a wider architectural level.
Think about a project - a project is when you lead a group of people to accomplish a task. Ownership - how did you personally ensure the success of completing that task?
“Ownership” is kool-aid for “do whatever it takes to ship”
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Quitting this Slave life
1. Find a coworker who owns a good project. 2. Setup a 1 on 1 with them. 3. Stare at them for 5 minutes. Make them feel uncomfortable. Do not smile. Don’t let them drink the water. 4. Finally say this menacingly: “It is my project now.” Congrats, you just taking ownership of a project.
On a more serious note, it means you are taking full responsibility of completing the project end to end if necessary - beyond your assigned task. Let’s say one of your coworker lagging behind, or sick, or left the company. You offered to take more tasks because you already finished your tasks earlier than planned. So the project met the timeline. Or you found some edge cases of the feature/product/service that was not identified during initial scoping by PM or Architect. Instead of just reporting the issue and waiting for them to figure out the solution, maybe you also proposed several ideas to solve the edge case - so it simplifies their job. Your story should end with some BS speciifc metrics like “with my idea, user engagement increased by 20%”