Tell me about a mistake that cost something
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The round's best question. Most answers are pre-sanitised into uselessness.
The question
"Tell me about a time you made a mistake at work. What happened and what did you do?"
They will press on the cost and on what changed afterwards.
15:00Commit to an answer before you open the solution. Reading it first teaches you to recognise good answers, which is not the skill being tested.
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written by a person · not a gradeScore yourself
0 of 5 marked- A real mistake with a real, quantified cost25
- Mitigation before diagnosis, and communication during20
- Took responsibility without hedging, including under the direct probe25
- A structural fix, not a personal resolution25
- Told in about two minutes5
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