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by falsedan 3386 days ago
That's why I recommend confirming that the candidate's first solution was right. Use lots of positive feedback: ok, looks good, that's right, that's how I would do it; I see where you're going with this; etc. Then introduce the change, with a justification e.g. the team providing the input data changed their format/guarantees/technology, and we have to blah blah blah.