DevOps/CloudHigh signal
Postmortem
Also written as Post-Incident Review, Blameless Postmortem
A written review conducted after an incident to understand what went wrong and prevent it from recurring, ideally 'blameless' — focused on the system and process, not blaming an individual.
Think of it like
Like an airline's crash investigation — the goal is fixing the system that allowed the failure, not punishing the pilot.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Writes a postmortem doc that gets filed away and forgotten.
Senior sounds like
Can point to an actual process or system change that came out of one they wrote.
Ask them
“Tell me about a postmortem you wrote or contributed to. What changed on your team as a direct result?”