What’s your go-to example in interviews of a mistake you made and corrected?

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Someone asked me, “What’s the best place you’ve ever worked at” and in my sleep deprived state, I basically trauma dumped saying my choatic career path/exploitative bosses made me a great strategist.

Now randomly in the shower, I’ll remind myself to just say “I learned from every experience and have lifelong friends” and highlight the best things of each place.

It’s okay - it wasn’t the right place to work at anyway (agency is barely there now)

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Apart from exploitative bosses, your answer is fine to me, lol. I sometimes overthink my answers after the interview as well, but then remember, that this was real me speaking and if they hire me they might hear more stuff like this, so we need to be on the same page.

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