debugging

Without traces, every quality complaint is a guess. The interviewer wants the fields that make debugging, evaluation and cost control possible, and an awareness of what should not be stored.

Things break in live rounds, and interviewers often learn more from how you recover than from a smooth build. The answer is calm narration, a time box, simplification and a fallback that still shows judgment.

Admit it, then read it out loud, state its inputs and outputs, name one way it fails and test it live. The panel is checking whether you own what you ship.