Competitive Technical Positioning Questions

Candidates should analyze how technology choices and capabilities create competitive differentiation. The discussion should identify a company's technical strengths and vulnerabilities relative to competitors, outline differentiating capabilities to invest in, and explain trade offs between speed cost and uniqueness. Topics include data and content advantages, personalization and recommendation quality, content delivery and encoding capabilities, developer and operational productivity, partnership and ecosystem plays, and how to measure and communicate technical differentiation to business leaders. Interviewers assess strategic prioritization and an understanding of how technical decisions map to market outcomes.