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The technical / debugging screen
Put this idea into your own words: "For a quality role, the screen is built around the actual work."
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Expect a realistic bug investigation or a light coding problem, not a pure algorithm puzzle. For a quality role, the screen is built around the actual work: take a confusing report, reproduce it, isolate the cause and hand back something an engineer could act on.
The single most valuable thing you can do is make your method visible. Narrate each move so the interviewer can follow your reasoning even when you are wrong about a hypothesis.
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The Debugging Method, Made Visible
Interactive diagram. Step through it with the Next and Previous controls below, or Tab to a region to read its detail.
Narrate each move so the interviewer can follow your reasoning even when a hypothesis is wrong. The clean handoff is the quality gate the screen actually grades.
Cursor is a desktop app talking to model backends, so a recurring move is deciding which layer owns the bug. Say it out loud as you triage.