You used AI on an allowed take-home. How do you demonstrate that you own the implementation?
A working demo leaves authorship and understanding unresolved. Defend the decisions, reproduce a failure and adapt the code under a changed requirement without overstating what you tested.
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A working demo leaves authorship and understanding unresolved. Defend the decisions, reproduce a failure and adapt the code under a changed requirement without overstating what you tested.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
This is an original practice scenario, not a reported company prompt. Follow the actual assessment's AI and disclosure rules. The exercise tests technical ownership under a changed requirement.
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