Culture change with receipts. Interviewers score whether you built mechanisms, credited messengers, shipped postmortem actions, measured report latency, rather than reciting the blameless poster.
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How do you get engineers to report their own mistakes early instead of hiding them?
Culture change with receipts. Interviewers score whether you built mechanisms, credited messengers, shipped postmortem actions, measured report latency, rather than reciting the blameless poster.
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