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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.

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You're a distribution engineer three months into your first utility job. You've written a switching order for planned work, and a foreman with twenty-five years in the field calls to say step six will backfeed the section his crew will be working on. The outage window opens in an hour. What do you do?

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I’d thank him and treat it as a live safety flag, not a challenge to my competence.…

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