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20 minutes might just be interview anxiety, especially if it’s a first question in the interview.



Then they have 70 minutes to recover. It never happens, though.


Being able to perform under stress could be a metric he values.

"Hey, the website was down for a few hours. Technically I could fix it in a minute, but have a downtime anxiety".




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