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Engineering Interview in Technical Round: How can a candidate make a recovery if they get stumped ?
Pause, perhaps ask the interviewers some clarifying questions, and try to work things out from first principles. Don’t waffle. It’s better to say that you don’t know, or that you haven’t come across this type of issue in your studies, and ask some more questions to help gain a greater understanding of the original question.
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