Code RoomJunior engineer production incident
MediumPrep Room Coding #3035

Junior engineer production incident

On-callReliability & on-callMid–Senior~20 min

A junior engineer ran a manual command in production that caused an outage, and they're shaken. As the senior on-call and reviewer, how do you handle the incident and the aftermath?

What a strong answer looks like

Stop the bleeding first (mitigate), then form hypotheses from real signals. Separate root cause from symptom, communicate status as you go, and close with what prevents a repeat.

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