This is your unscheduled reminder that telling early-in-career engineers stories of times you messed something up real bad is a good way to help them combat their own impostor syndrome.
For example, I once bricked my phone by accidentally deleting the entire operating system.

How could this happen, you ask?

I was on the treadmill at the gym, and my music wasn’t working, so I started dicking around in the bootloader to do a factory reset...
“Don’t play in the bootloader while you’re running on the treadmill” SEEMS like a warning nobody should need to be given, but just in case you were wondering, I can confirm: it’s a bad idea.

0/10, did not fix my music problem.
Also, I can’t recommend actually asking this in an interview as things currently stand, but if our culture around both failure and hiring wasn’t so incredibly jacked up, “tell me about your funniest technical mistake” would be a fantastic question to ask candidates.
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