Confessions of a Dev #2:The Interview Answer That Haunts Me

You know that feeling — walking out of an interview, and by the time you hit the elevator, your brain already starts replaying that one question. The one where you said something… fine. Acceptable. Professional. But deep down, you know you had a killer answer in you. The honest one. The clever one. The one that would've made the interviewer lean in and say, "Tell me more." Instead, you played it safe. You gave the textbook response. You talked about "process improvement" and "team collaboration"