Technical Problem Solving Questions

Assess the candidate's structured approach to ambiguous and unfamiliar technical problems. This covers how the candidate clarifies requirements, identifies unknowns and key assumptions, breaks problems into testable components, forms hypotheses and designs experiments, and uses instrumentation and measurement to validate conclusions. Interviewers will probe profiling and benchmarking techniques, creation of lightweight prototypes or proofs of concept to reduce risk, root cause analysis methods, and how data and metrics drive trade off decisions. Also evaluate communication of findings, iteration based on evidence, and pragmatic decision making when balancing time, quality, and resource constraints.