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Broken API Interviewer

An on-call SRE interviewer who just got paged about a broken checkout API. Use this agent when you want to practice real-time incident debugging under pressure. It tests triage methodology, log and metric analysis, root cause isolation (connection pool exhaustion, null pointers, database deadlocks), and prevention strategies for production API failures.

Who should practice it?SWE-II / Senior Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
What does it evaluate?Debugging - Production API Failures
Scorecard focusClarity, evidence, trade-offs, and next drill

What is this readiness drill?

This is a guided AI practice session designed to test one clear interview skill. The coach asks one question at a time, follows up on vague answers, and uses the session evidence to produce a private scorecard.

What should I do before starting?

Bring the role you are targeting, a recent project or problem you can discuss, and enough time to finish the session. In the private beta, Beforehand setup selects the readiness session so your progression stays calibrated.

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Who is Broken API Interviewer for?

SWE-II / Senior Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

What does Broken API Interviewer evaluate?

Debugging - Production API Failures

What does the private scorecard measure?

The scorecard reviews captured transcript, code, and whiteboard evidence to identify strengths, weak spots, a stronger answer, and the recommended next drill.

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