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Situational questions test reasoning under hypothetical pressure. Interviewers want to see the constraints you name, the trade-offs you choose, and the assumptions you flag.

Situational · Crisis Response

You're a development associate. You discover this morning's acknowledgment-letter mail merge went out with the wrong gift amounts to about 80 donors, including several major donors, and the tax-receipt language is incorrect. Your manager is out all day. What do you do?

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First, stop the bleeding: confirm nothing else is queued to send and pull the full list of affected donors with exactly what each letter said.…

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