maybe you didn't get the job because of your answer. but you didn't get the job because you didn't know what an MEL was.
It is always a good answer to say: I plan to comply with the regulations, ops specs, limitations and MEL. Do you have a copy of the documents so I can give you an intelligent answer.
There are also corrections in the logbook or on the compass correction card to compensate for the electrical magnetic fields of radios, windshield heat (if compass is near windshield) and other things.
I was once asked: what would you do if the wx forecast was for good wx and you didn't have to file an alternate but you got to San Francisco and the airport was below minimums, what would you do?
I said I would fly three minutes to Oakland and land there.
I then asked what was wrong with the forecast and further details and then asked: WHAT DID YOUR GUY DO? (this is a giveaway, they are asking YOU if you are smarter than a dumb guy they already hired).
THEIR GUY declared an emergency and landed below minimums.
oh, and there was another question on an approach plate to Santa Maria Airport in california. The apch stated: RADAR REQUIRED.
So, THEIR guy turned on the weather radar.
This was not the right answer.
I got the job, but left soon for a real airline.