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Incident-response round. They wanted rollback before diagnosis, who I'd tell and when, and how I'd avoid making the blast radius bigger while investigating.
Offer negotiations, rejection post-mortems, prep routines, career questions. Anything you'd tell a friend going through the same thing — no company or role required.
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Given a div-based dropdown with click handlers. Keyboard navigation, focus management, and the right ARIA roles — plus why a native element would have been better.
They were explicitly not interested in a disguised success story. The bar was owning a real decision that went wrong and naming the signal you missed.
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