At seven or eight years, interviews stop asking only whether you can build a scoreboard and start asking whether you can run the people and the process around one. Who owns a red regression? What do you look for when a junior's first agent lands in review? How do you say "not ready" in a tape-out review? What do you change after a bug escapes to silicon? This topic answers those questions with the same DMA bench, waiver, fault campaign and war stories the rest of the course built.
Set up ownership, a triage rotation, onboarding and a dashboard for a DV team.
Review DV code for meaning, not just style, and grow juniors into reviewers.
Run a sign-off review, handle waivers and open risks, and say "not ready" with a plan.
Turn a late spec change into an impact list, and a bug escape into a process fix.
Get ambiguity resolved, write bug reports designers act on, and negotiate scope.
Tell your hardest-bug story in an interview in three minutes, with numbers and a lesson.
# | Lesson | The question it answers |
|---|---|---|
1 | The nightly is 82% green and nobody owns the red. What structure fixes that? | |
2 | A junior's scoreboard compiles and passes. What does a senior reviewer still ask? | |
3 | The dashboard is green and you are not convinced. How do you run the review? | |
4 | What does a late change touch, and what do you fix after a miss? | |
5 | How do you get ambiguity resolved and bugs fixed without authority? | |
6 | How do you answer "tell me about your hardest bug" in three minutes? |
Start with: Leading a DV Team.