QA · Mid-level · Theory

A user reports a bug in production, but you can't reproduce it. What do you do?

~4 min by voice

How to approach it

They're checking whether you can systematically narrow down a problem you can't reproduce head-on: gather the user's context, find traces in logs and monitoring, understand how their situation differs from yours, and record the bug even without a reproduction.

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The interviewer will ask this question and listen. Think out loud and ask for a hint if you need one. When you're done, pause or tap “That's my answer”. In about a minute, your score and the points you covered show up here.

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