Development Standards and Governance Questions

Focuses on establishing, communicating, and enforcing team and cross team processes that ensure consistent technical quality. Topics include coding standards and style guides, code review policies and workflows, branch and release strategies, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, static analysis and linting toolchains, automated quality gates and pre commit checks, integration of testing into pipelines, metrics for defect rates complexity and coverage, strategies to manage technical debt and legacy code, governance models for exceptions and escalation, and balancing standard strictness with developer productivity. Interviewers look for experience designing standards, driving adoption, integrating tool chains, and measuring impact.