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I’ve been following that thread very closely. Prepping myself to install cruise control but as I have a cem-b in my car, I have to solder to the board.

What changes have you made?

The point of the question isn’t trivia or mathematics, it’s to demonstrate how you deal with ambiguity

At work you may be asked to spec out and implement a poorly-defined defined request.

They expected you to have asked clarifying questions rather than steaming ahead in the assumption that the Thames is 50m metres wide at all point.

The interviewer stating “actually it’s 100m” shows that they didn’t understand this point either though, and was probably repeating the answer they were told to give if the candidate asks this clarifying question

Before the former primary server could be placed into rotation, a snapshot of the server was made to ensure the backup would not delete itself upon reconnection

I don’t understand this. Was the snapshot made of the compromised database or of the old not in use one? Why would the backup (snapshot?) delete itself on reconnection?

is it named in capital letters? I've noticed some systems will see capital letters and read it as F-R-O-N-T etc. Maybe try renaming the door to lower case