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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 · Negative Signal

You're a shift manager at a casual-dining restaurant. Going through the weekly reports, you notice comps and voids on your closing shifts are running double the other shifts, concentrated around two servers. What do you do?

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Investigate before I accuse, because this pattern has innocent explanations — closing shifts eat more kitchen errors and long-ticket walkouts.…

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