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Describe a risk you took in a project and the outcome

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Tell me a time when you took a risk, you went ahead with that and did the risk pay off or it didn't and would have taken a moment today to go back and do something differently.

This was asked in the 1:1 technical stage. The interviewer is assessing your judgment under uncertainty, ownership of consequences, and ability to learn from decisions. Explain how you evaluated the risk, communicated it, managed downside exposure, and what you would change in retrospect. A strong response should use a specific example and clearly cover the outcome, including what happened if the decision did not fully pay off.