We once interviewed someone who spent the first ten minutes asking what happens when things break: who gets woken up, how we find out a payment silently failed, what we do when a customer says money left their account and nothing arrived. Not one question about frameworks. We hired them, because anyone can learn our stack in a month, but the instinct to ask "what does this look like at 3am when it goes wrong" is what actually keeps a client's system running. What's the one question you wish more people asked before joining your team?
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