I agree. Last time I got hit with an interview question like that, my answer ultimately had to be "block the merge and counsel the person who wrote this about

I agree. Last time I got hit with an interview question like that, my answer ultimately had to be "block the merge and counsel the person who wrote this about performance." I'm still not sure if that's the answer they were looking for (this was for a staff engineer position), but I'd stand by it 100% of the time.