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WEEK 5 · PILLAR 1 · STRUCTURED EVALUATION

Evaluating Problem-Solving

WHAT IT IS

Evaluating problem-solving means watching how a candidate works through a realistic problem from your job — how they clarify, structure, trade off and adapt — rather than whether they hit a clever answer. Score the process against anchors, not the brilliance of the moment.

WHY IT MATTERS

Puzzle questions reward a narrow kind of quick recall and test anxiety. Real problem-solving in your team looks like ambiguity, incomplete data and trade-offs — so that is what the exercise should simulate.

Inside the full lesson
  • • 3 practical rules to use in your next interview
  • • Signal-vs-noise lab: 2 real interview moments, weak vs. strong interviewer
  • • What goes wrong when teams skip it
  • • 3 realistic scenarios to test your judgement, with XP and streaks
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