Business Strategy & Performance Topics
Business strategy, competitive analysis, market opportunities, and strategic innovation. Includes market research, competitive positioning, and business planning.
Company and Business Context
Demonstrating knowledge of the broader company and industry context in which the role operates, including business model, market dynamics, competitive position, strategic priorities, financial implications, regulatory or operational constraints, and common project management or product development philosophies at major technology companies. This includes awareness of how the role contributes to business outcomes and the methodologies the company commonly uses to plan and measure work.
Business Strategy and Alignment
Covers how projects, technical decisions, metrics, and operational governance are connected to an organization's strategic objectives. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to translate high level strategy into executable plans, prioritize initiatives that create measurable business value such as revenue, cost reduction, customer experience, or time to market, and recognize consequences of misalignment. Includes metric governance and dashboard ownership processes, defining metric definitions, assigning owners, managing technical debt in reporting systems, and evolving measurement as priorities change. Interviewers assess business literacy, use of business language when explaining technical trade offs, stakeholder communication, and examples where alignment succeeded or where misalignment created problems.
Strategic Decision Making and Business Alignment
Making data driven strategic decisions and balancing competing priorities and constraints. Evaluate how the candidate frames strategic choices, weighs tradeoffs and opportunity costs, uses qualitative and quantitative evidence to choose between options, aligns initiatives to business strategy and objectives, and reasons about long term value creation and sustainable impact beyond timeline and budget.
Problem Structuring and Business Context Analysis
Demonstrate ability to take a complex, ambiguous business scenario and break it into manageable components. Ask smart clarifying questions to understand: business objectives, current pain points, competitive context, organizational constraints, regulatory environment, timeline and budget expectations. Avoid jumping to solutions before fully understanding the problem. Show you're thinking like a strategic consultant, not just an implementer.