on call

The screen is whether you build for your own replaceability or your own indispensability. Strong answers treat the handoff as a deliverable with a graduation criterion, not a final week of doc-dumping. Here is what to leave behind, how to transfer it, and the trap that sounds generous.

The staff on-call simulation: three alarms at once, partial information, and pressure to do something. How to separate symptom from cause, the common-cause hypothesis that explains all three, and why mitigating before diagnosing is the senior move, not a shortcut.