Describe a time a deadline forced you to ship work below your own bar. What did you cut, and who knew?

Everyone with real experience has made this trade; claiming otherwise is itself an answer. What matters is whether the cut was chosen — the least damaging corner, flagged to the people relying on the work — or simply happened wherever the clock ran out.

• Why that corner and not another?
• Who did you tell before it shipped?
• Did anyone ever go back for the debt?

A corner picked by risk rather than by what happened to be left, the people affected told before shipping rather than after discovery, and the gap tracked and repaid — or a straight admission that it never was.

The compromise stayed secret until it surfaced as someone else's problem, correctness went while cosmetics survived, the debt is still out there and shrugged at, or they insist they never compromise on quality.