Organization Design and Team Structure Questions

Focuses on structuring engineering organizations for scale, effectiveness, and alignment with business goals. Candidates should discuss organizing by product, platform, or functional lines, team topologies such as feature teams and platform teams, span of control and leadership layering, decision rights and RACI models, cross functional squads versus centralized services, hiring and career ladder design, mechanisms for knowledge sharing, and approaches to transform an organization during periods of rapid growth. The topic also covers metrics to evaluate team performance, approaches to avoid team silos, and how to align organizational changes with strategic priorities such as new technology initiatives or market expansion.