What did you learn from a recent failure? How has this failure made you a better {role}?
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Anonymous
7 months ago
In my current role while we were about to launch an entire onboarding feature in merchant app we didn't anticipated that it could fail, since we approached the same process that we were following for years in agent app. However the product failed due to it's lengthy and time consuming process, however we hid the feature for few months, we introduced OCR, multiple retry option and ML to the process and when we later released it it was a success. The thing I learnt from this failure is that how important is pilot study and UAT testing on the field, whatever the timeline is, pressure is, it's better to be late than failure product.
Anonymous
7 months ago
In my current role while we were about to launch an entire onboarding feature in merchant app we didn't anticipated that it could fail, since we approached the same process that we were following for years in agent app. However the product failed due to it's lengthy and time consuming process, however we hid the feature for few months, we introduced OCR, multiple retry option and ML to the process and when we later released it it was a success. The thing I learnt from this failure is that how important is pilot study and UAT testing on the field, whatever the timeline is, pressure is, it's better to be late than failure product.
Interview question asked to Technical Program Managers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Cloud Support Engineers and other roles interviewing at FactSet, Delhivery, The Descartes Systems Group and others: What did you learn from a recent failure? How has this failure made you a better {role}?.