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The slow system everyone hates

Il gestionale lento che tutti odiano · Engineering · Beginner

The case

The internal management system takes 40 seconds to load main screens. Employees created parallel Excel sheets to avoid it: now data is duplicated, misaligned and nobody trusts the numbers anymore. The software vendor says 'it's all normal'. What do you do?

Il gestionale interno impiega 40 secondi a caricare le schermate principali. I dipendenti hanno creato fogli Excel paralleli per evitarlo: ora i dati sono duplicati, disallineati e nessuno si fida più dei numeri. Il fornitore del software dice che 'è tutto normale'. Cosa fai?

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It is a beginner-level Engineering case based on a real workplace situation. You read the problem, write how you would solve it in free text, and Grace's AI judges whether your solution actually works, and tells you what is still uncovered.

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