An individual contributor can be a master of a single stage of a project—brilliant at design, fast at coding, or meticulous at testing. A leader, however, must navigate the entire journey. They must be able to take a project from a vague, ambiguous idea all the way to a successful launch and beyond.

This end-to-end journey is a test of a huge range of skills: technical design, project management, communication, stakeholder management, and team motivation. 

Your answer to this question is your opportunity to provide a "case study" of you as a leader. It's a chance to show them not just what you can build, but how you lead.

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