Resource Allocation and Investment Decisions Questions

Discuss how you make decisions about where to invest engineering resources. How do you evaluate trade-offs between new features, technical debt reduction, infrastructure investment, and hiring? What metrics or frameworks do you use? Tell a story about a major resource allocation decision: What was the context? What options did you consider? How did you decide? What was the outcome? Did it work out as expected or did you learn something unexpected? Also discuss how you handle resource constraints—what do you say no to and why?