[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you learned something important from a failed or difficult project.

Instruction: Answer this as a realistic lesson-learned story where the project was difficult enough to change how you work.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can reflect honestly on hard projects and show growth beyond superficial lessons.

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One difficult project taught me how dangerous it is when the reporting story gets cleaner than the real project. On paper, the workstreams were still moving, so it was easy to keep telling ourselves the issues were manageable. But underneath that, the integration points were getting weaker and the margin for error...

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