Engineering Culture and Quality Standards Questions

Assesses how candidates build and sustain an engineering culture that drives high quality and reliable delivery without unduly slowing velocity. Candidates should discuss code review standards, testing strategies including unit testing integration testing and end to end testing, test automation, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, deployment and release practices such as feature flagging and canary releases, observability and monitoring, incident response and blameless postmortems, service level objectives and error budget thinking, metrics and feedback loops, developer experience and tooling, and approaches to embed quality through hiring coaching and process. The topic also covers balancing technical debt pay down with feature delivery and evolving quality standards as the organization grows.