Think30s if you want it
Answerabout 220 words
Follow-upsafter you finish
Coachsealed until you stop
Answer shapeSituational
Clarify 
Approach 
Tradeoff 
Check 
target 220 words

Four beats: Clarify, Approach, Tradeoff, Check. Nothing is marked until you stop, because underlining a word while you are still speaking changes the next one.

The answerNot started
Clarify · Approach · Tradeoff · Checkfills in when you finish
Your coach note lands when you finish. Nothing is marked on your words until then, because reading a correction mid-sentence changes the next sentence.

Interviewers ask this kind of question to surface how you think, not what you remember. The strongest answers are specific, calmly told, and end on what changed.

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