Before you start
How this works
You will answer the same question twice. The first time is yours alone — no options, no framework, no prompts. Then you'll be coached, and you'll answer again. The gap between the two is the point of the exercise.
What to expect
- Step 1 gives you the scenario and nothing else. You write what you would actually do. Once you submit it, it locks — you cannot go back and improve it.
- Steps 2 to 4 ask you questions drawn from entrepreneurial mindset. They aren't tests. They're the questions a more experienced engineer would have asked before answering.
- Step 5 coaches you on character — specifically on the two ways your instinct can fail: by having too little of a quality, or too much of it.
- Step 6 is your rewrite. Step 7 puts both versions side by side.
- Nothing is saved to a server. Take your record with you at the end.
What is recorded. Your written answers, under this section code and unique identifier. Not your name, email, or IP address. Step 5 asks you to identify your own failure mode — the identifier exists so you can answer that honestly.
Before you can continue
- Section code entered
- Unique identifier entered