Ownership and Quality Questions

Assessment of a candidate's willingness to take responsibility for outcomes and their practices for ensuring high quality deliverables. Candidates should be able to describe owning features or incidents end to end, setting and enforcing definitions of done, improving reliability through testing strategies and code review, reducing or managing technical debt, and following through on production issues. Interviewers may probe how the candidate balances shipping with quality, how they escalate and communicate risk, and concrete examples of improving system correctness and observability.