Walking the Interviewer Through Your Bridge Design

Knowing the bridge table pattern is necessary but not sufficient. The interview signal is in how you narrate the decision. This section gives you the script for walking through a bridge table design from first principles, hitting every rubric item along the way. The 60-Second Framework This five-step narration takes about 60 seconds and hits every rubric item: problem recognition, aggregation awareness, solution design, query mechanics, and data quality. Practice saying it out loud. The Bridge Move: Expanding Beyond the Question After the core bridge design, expand to adjacent territory. Say: 'The weight model is really an attribution model. First-touch, last-touch, linear are all just different weight assignments. Finance defines the policy, not engineering.' Then: 'Do the weights change