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Can you describe an instance where your decision was unsuccessful and the lessons you drew from it?

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Anonymous

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In one of my previous roles, I was tasked with debugging a critical issue in a design verification testbench. The problem seemed minor initially, so I chose to focus on a quick fix without thoroughly analyzing the root cause. While the testbench passed some initial runs, the issue resurfaced in a different part of the design during integration, causing delays in the overall verification process.

This experience taught me the importance of addressing issues systematically rather than opting for quick fixes. Now, whenever I encounter a problem, I take the time to dig into the root cause, even if it requires additional effort upfront. This approach has significantly improved the reliability of my contributions and prevented similar issues from recurring in subsequent projects

Anonymous

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When a decision I made did not pan out - I would be open and admit that I was wrong and come up with solutions to fix the same.
while I was a director of infrastructure at Center card, I saw that if my team owns the deployment of ELk cluster K8s it would be cost effective, what I did not anticipate was that the team prepared to handle such an implementation.. our Elk setup was not able to scale during the load testing phase.This caused a churn as we had to revert back to managed elk as that had more reliability. the lesson I learnt was that I as a leader need to access teams strength and weakness as well before taking any strategic intuitive..

Anonymous

I came with a project Idea  to automate KPI metrics generation for quarterly review. I shared this idea with my manager and he asked me to share this project with another team within my group to build a tool based on my requirement. I gave one page requirement to them and left it them to complete it. But project kept of dragging without any significant updates and in the end I had to escalate and take over the project with my team. The lesson I learnt that while delegating this project, I didn't get firm commitment on timeline. Since this project was not a critical to them, they didn't prioritize it causing delays
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Interview question asked to Design Verification Engineers and Embedded Engineers interviewing at Xilinx, Farnell, Advantest and others: Can you describe an instance where your decision was unsuccessful and the lessons you drew from it?.