Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Tell us a story about how you took down production." We had a real need for batch queries, so I built a declarative batch query mechanism for our in-house ORM. To do this, we needed to make actual objects representing database relations. Unfortunately, the "collections of lambdas" we were using as an ORM had started getting polluted with buisness logic. So I used a parser/rewrite engine to match the un-polluted DB t…
> Production immediately came to a screeching halt. However, in under an hour, I discovered that a coworker had polluted an even lower level of the ORM framework with business logic. "I see. So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Thanks for your time."
Nope. He was privy to our stopping the flow of business logic into the DB/ORM code. He failed to realize the implications and communicate with us.
I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it.
Pure projection. Of course that's a problem. Thanks for disqualifying yourself up front.