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What is the interviewer supposed to hone in on for that?

Like if i was to answer that honestly, it was fixing an obscure i18n bug for an underserved language group. I felt it was cool because it was such a small amount of work but made some people inordinately happy. In many ways i am much more proud of this 20 min bug fix than all the big technical projects i've done. But if you asked me any technical questions about it, the answer would almost entirely be - i used the architecture that already existed, because i was fixing a bug not rewriting the code base.



> What is the coolest thing you ever built?

Fixing a bug isn't the same as building something, though.




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