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INSIDE AN ISSUE

Four parts, in the order you would answer.

  1. 01

    The prompt

    Worded the way an interviewer words it, tagged with the round it comes from.

  2. 02

    What a Strong Hire answer commits to

    The decision, the number behind it and the trade-off it accepts.

  3. 03

    The follow-up

    The constraint added second, and how a good answer bends to it.

  4. 04

    How it is scored

    Weak, Hire and Strong Hire lines, so you can mark yourself first.

EVALS AND QUALITY ROUNDQUOTED FROM AN OPEN ANSWER
01

Your support agent completes 82% of tasks in testing. Is it ready to launch?

02

"82%" is unreadable until you know the sample size, what the other 18% looks like, and which segments it averages over. Ship to the segments where failures are safe and recoverable and the agent beats today's baseline; keep the rest behind human review with a dated re-evaluation.

03

“Leadership wants one number for the launch review. What do you give them?”

Cost-weighted expected error per thousand tasks against the current process, by segment, with the interval. One number is fine if it carries severity.

04
SignalWeakHireStrong Hire
Treats 82% as a numberSays yes or no to the numberAsks about sample size and failure typesComputes the interval, questions independence and run-to-run consistency, and shows how the decision changes with n
Failure analysis"Improve the prompt"Separates failure typesWeights failures by cost and reversibility
Launch planAll or nothingPhased rolloutSegment-level autonomy with baselines, monitors, a kill switch and a re-evaluation date
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