Red Flags: Answers That Sound Junior (and Their Fixes)

1. Why Study the Failures

Every lesson in this course pointed out the answer that fails its topic. Collect them and one pattern shows up. Nearly every red flag is a benefit stated without its cost, a mechanism named without its consequence, or a slogan where a judgment was requested.

Interviewers are not listening for vocabulary. They are listening for whether you know what things cost.

Here are the twelve highest-frequency failures, each with its fix.

2. The Twelve

1. "Microservices, because they scale better." Five words, three mistakes