“When I was working at X on Y, we had a test suite that had become difficult to maintain. Some of this was due to particularly non-idiomatic code using stacked

“When I was working at X on Y, we had a test suite that had become difficult to maintain. Some of this was due to particularly non-idiomatic code using stacked decorators, so I replaced that with more understandable setup and teardown functions. It really improved our ability to keep the tests up to date and to quickly resolve issues, and I’m glad I went out of my way to get it done. I also updated related documentation that hadn’t been touched in a long time to make it easier for people on the team to ramp up on the package.” You had a good interview story on your hands there! Give the interviewer the context of what the situation was, what you did, and why that mattered. But maybe leave our your leadership team’s penchant for never ending meetings. :P