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How do you approach a high-pressure situation when everything goes wrong?

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Franklin’s Answer

An important thing is to remain calm, this may sound silly but finding a way to remain calm will help you process information and activate creativity for solving the problem. This could be an important looming deadline where things are not coming together or a high stakes production outage. If the situation is long running it is also important to take care of your self so you don't make things worse from stress or lack of sleep.
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Jimil’s Answer

The reality is, in a situation like this you will probably need to put in more than 40 hours a week. First check google, bing, stack overflow, youtube, and other sites like that. If that doesn't work, refer to the APIs for the specific libraries you are working with. If that doesn't work, go back to basics and look at some codeacademy or udemy classes to reference the basics. No pun intended. *chuckles* this has served me well in general, but sometimes there is no easy solution and sometimes I have to try using different libraries, a different language or different method. Also sometimes I need to take a break and when I come back to the computer with a fresh set of eyes, I see a potential solution that I did not see prior. Sometimes understanding exactly how a method works is part of the problems. Even though a method is supposed to perform a certain action, when it doesn't work as planned, there is a lack of understanding about how the method performs the action.
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Shubhankar’s Answer

Take a deep breath.... It is similar to the situation when you are in the exam hall and face a difficult question.
The approach I take is relax a bit and try to find more information about the situation, break down the problem in smaller parts if possible and evaluate the possible options. Most of the times there is a simple solution for the toughest problems.

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