Competitive Technology Assessment Questions

Evaluate competitor and market technology landscapes to identify gaps, opportunities, and risks that inform strategic technology investments. Topics include mapping competitor architectures and stacks, benchmarking performance and reliability, assessing third party and open source dependencies, identifying product and technical differentiators, and performing gap analysis and maturity assessments. Candidates should be able to propose actionable recommendations such as build versus buy decisions, roadmap changes, vendor selection criteria, and business cases with estimated time to value and risk mitigation. Useful methods include technology radars, SWOT analysis, signals gathering from public repositories and job postings, and aligning findings to product market strategy and regulatory considerations.