24Walk me through facilitating the post-incident review after a severe outage. How do you keep it blameless but not toothless?▼mediumNewGoogleNetflixGoldman Sachs◆ premiumFacilitation is mechanics: timeline before theories, blame converted into system questions, actions with owners tracked to closure. Include the defensive engineer and the exec who wants a head.Open full answer →
03What is the biggest technical mistake you have made, and what happened afterwards?▼mediumNewAmazonNetflixGoogle2 repliesunlockedA question that punishes both extremes. A trivial mistake reads as evasion, a catastrophic one told carelessly reads as reckless, and the interviewer is really asking what you do in the twenty minutes after you realise.Open full answer →
