Take Home Assignment Mistake

I had a take home assignment for a final round in ER. Results were dead nuts, everything there was correct but I overlooked conditional formatting in 4 different columns, was highlighting numbers greater than 1 instead of 0. How bad is that, presentation is good looking but I should have noticed those mistakes but I think I was staring at the sheet to long. Had buddies look it over and they did not pick up on them either but with my luck the reviewer will. In the grand scheme of things how bad could it be you think?

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Take a deep breath, it's not the end of the world. 

There are bigger things to worry about in the grand scheme of things than conditional formatting on a couple of cells in an excel sheet.

If the logic of the model and the presentation makes sense and is explained properly, a couple of cells of formatting in a model isn't necessarily going to make or break it.

 

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