Engineering Culture and Psychological Safety Questions

Focuses on creating engineering specific cultures that enable technical excellence, ownership, experimentation, and psychological safety. Topics include practices such as blameless postmortems, constructive code review norms, distributed ownership, clear decision making, career and technical development, hiring for diversity, and rituals that support collaboration and knowledge sharing. Interviewers will probe how candidates foster safe environments for engineers to ask questions, surface incidents early, learn from failures, and take calculated risks while maintaining reliability and delivery. Candidates should provide concrete engineering examples, cultural interventions, measurable impact, and how culture choices supported technical outcomes.