Tell me about a real problem you spotted in your own work before anyone else did. What did you do — and did anyone ever find out?

Self-caught problems test the bar a candidate holds when nobody is checking — and the closing clause tests what scripts never cover: whether a quiet fix stayed quiet while others were exposed to the risk. Where the disclosure landed separates pride management from risk management.

• What tipped you off that something was wrong?
• What would have happened if you'd left it alone?
• What did putting it right cost you?
• Was catching it luck, or a habit you can name?

A concrete defect with real consequences rather than a perfectionist quibble, honest sizing of what it could have cost, disclosure calibrated to that cost — someone was told when others carried the risk — and a checking habit that came out of it.

The only flaws ever found are cosmetic, a significant problem got fixed silently while others still carried the exposure, or the story is really about how rarely their work has problems at all.