Interviewers sometimes sabotage demos on purpose to ask exactly this. The recovery has a 60-second protocol, and done well, a broken demo can close harder than a perfect one.
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Your demo breaks in front of the customer, mid-demo. What do you do in the room?
Interviewers sometimes sabotage demos on purpose to ask exactly this. The recovery has a 60-second protocol, and done well, a broken demo can close harder than a perfect one.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
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