CoStar Group interview question

Tell me about a time you solved a difficult technical problem.

Interview Answer

Anonymous

18 June 2026

I hit a domain validation error affecting 25 feature classes. String fields were storing a numeric null sentinel instead of the correct 'noInformation' value, which broke schema compliance. Rather than fixing it by hand, I wrote an ArcPy correction script that identified and replaced the bad values across all the feature classes at once. It resolved the compliance issue and gave us a reusable tool for catching the same problem in the future.