Timeline: Two days
Tech: React
Description: App that loads random behavioral interview questions for you to practice with.
Contribution Type: Personal project
Status: On hiatus
Retrospective: I was looking up behavioral interview questions to practice and stumbled upon a site that had a whole set of them, and I had recently learned how to make a web scraper using Python, so I went ahead and adapted that scraper to get the questions, whipped up a quick backend to serve the questions randomly, and developed this frontend as a cute practice app. In retrospect I don't think there was enough data to really warrant a separate backend, but it was good practice. I have a beta version with webcam recording as well because one of the career coaches at school suggested recording yourself answering and then watching the video so you could critique yourself and work on improving your delivery. That was a suprisingly challenging process because I spent a night trying to figure out how to enable webcam recording natively and ended up using an npm install instead. Then I spent another night trying to set up SSL on localhost because the npm package required it due to privacy concerns with the webcam.
I'm proud of this app because it's something that other people can use, and after sharing it on the school Slack someone said they used it during their team standup!
Bug fixes: -question not loading on start
Features to be added: -get questions by category
Features in beta: -webcam recording and timer. Message me for access alicetchang // gmail