Tell an interviewer about a pilot or experiment that missed its goal.

Instruction: Use a truthful past example: state the hypothesis, your own contribution, the evidence that changed the decision, the result and what you subsequently changed.

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This behavioral question assesses learning and honest reporting, not whether every project succeeded. Use an experience you can substantiate, and separate your work from the team outcome. The sample is fictional: a support team tested draft responses, found that source-checking erased the expected speed improvement, and stopped the broad pilot. Do not present that sample or its outcome as your own history.

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I helped evaluate a draft-response assistant for a support team. Our hypothesis was that it would reduce total handling time without lowering answer quality. My responsibility was to design the task review and gather agent feedback, rather than build the model...

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