Iterative Refinement and Intellectual Honesty Questions

Demonstrates an approach of proposing a simple, testable baseline quickly and then iteratively refining the solution using data, experiments, and stakeholder feedback. Interviewers will look for explicit statement of assumptions, design of small inexpensive experiments or prototypes to test key uncertainties, incremental improvements informed by evidence, and graceful acknowledgment of limitations and unknowns. Candidates should avoid fabricating details, describe how they would validate ideas and measure progress, and show how they would incorporate critique and constraints into subsequent iterations.