05It's Friday evening at a customer site and they want a hotfix shipped now. How do you do it safely, and when do you refuse?▼easyPalantirRetoolMicrosoft2 repliesunlockedThis isn't a deployment question, it's a judgment question wearing one. Interviewers are scoring whether you have a decision framework, a safety checklist, and the spine to say no to a customer politely.Open full answer →
08A customer's app calling your API times out intermittently. You can't see their code. Debug it.▼medium★ EssentialOpenAIAnthropicRetool1 repliesunlockedThe signature FDE debugging genre: a moving fault, an opaque client, and a customer who's sure it's your fault. The winning method splits the problem at the boundary, and knows the four classic culprits hiding on their side.Open full answer →