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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.

On-call & incidents · Incident response

You're paged for a partial outage affecting 10% of users, but you can't identify what those users have in common. How do you structure your investigation?

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