The Cost of Silence

Tyler and Molly discuss the tense architecture meeting near the office coffee machine in Denver.

The Cost of Silence

Listen and choose the right answer

How did Molly react initially when Tyler brought up the meeting with Leo?

• She admitted she made a huge mistake immediately
• She thought they handled the situation just fine
• She claimed she did not attend the API sync

What did Tyler reveal about Leo's suggestion at the end of their conversation?

• It was the exact same idea Tyler pitched and Molly rejected two years ago
• It came from a junior developer working in the London office
• It would cost the company millions to implement right now

What did Tyler say about the past incident involving that specific idea?

• It saved the company a lot of money
• It caused massive cloud infrastructure costs during emergency overtime
• It was successfully deployed during the Series A launch

What action does Molly decide to take at the very end of the dialogue?

• She decides to cancel the afternoon backlog grooming session
• She tells Tyler to handle Leo herself tomorrow morning
• She will message Leo and apologize for dismissing his optimization

Listen again and complete the sentences

• Tyler: To be honest, you started to ____ his suggestion before he even finished his sentence.
• Molly: I didn't mean to ____ him, but we've tested that Redis cluster configuration three times already.
• Tyler: Leo tried to voice a concern about our timeout limits, but your tone made it impossible for him to ____ .
• Tyler: Suppose he decides to stay silent from now on because he's afraid of our ____ ?
• Tyler: Do we really? It looked as though you wanted to crush any form of ____ in that room.

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