Scaling Strategy and Organizational Design Questions

Covers the strategic and structural approaches to growing teams, products, and operations while maintaining quality, alignment, and delivery velocity. Candidates should be able to describe when and how to form and reorganize teams, add layers of management, and choose between function oriented and product oriented structures. Topics include hiring plans for growth, role definitions, capacity and resource planning, operational processes and automation, maintaining technical quality and reliability, governance and decision rights, and metrics used to track scalable health. Also includes systems and process design trade offs such as speed versus reliability, building capabilities for larger scale, leadership and mentorship development, onboarding at scale from an operational perspective, and lessons learned from past scaling initiatives.