She had everything on the list. Eight years of experience. Strong systems design. Distributed architecture under her belt. The panel interview went well — one of the hiring managers later described it as the best technical conversation they'd had with a candidate all quarter. The team passed on her.
Two weeks later, during a casual conversation with that hiring manager, the reason came out. It wasn't her architectural skills or her communication. It was a question someone had slipped in near the end: "Walk us through how you'd set up an AI-assisted code review pipeline for a team that ships twelve microservices." She described doing it manually. The other finalist described standing up an orchestration layer with context-aware models, configuring fallback thresholds, and building observable feedback loops that trained the team's prompt library over time.
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