Describe learning from a post-interview bug

Q: Describe learning from a post-interview bug

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Question

Behavioral Prompt: Bug Discovered After a Remote Technical Screen

Context

You are in a remote technical screen for a Machine Learning Engineer role. You focused heavily on coding, skipped a thorough dry run, and later realized your solution had a bug after the interview ended.

Task

Using a structured behavioral format (e.g., STAR: Situation, Task, Action, Result), describe:

A specific example of this scenario (what the problem was, what you built, and the bug you later found).
How you could have detected the bug earlier during the interview.
How you would communicate with the interviewer during the session (while coding and upon noticing issues) and after the session (upon realizing the bug).
Concrete changes you will make to avoid similar issues in future technical screens.

Describe learning from a post-interview bug

Behavioral Prompt: Bug Discovered After a Remote Technical Screen

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