Process Efficiency and Automation Questions

Focuses on identifying inefficiencies in business or operational processes and applying automation and process improvement techniques to increase accuracy, speed, and scalability. Candidates should be able to map current workflows, quantify pain points and manual effort, propose pragmatic automation approaches such as scripting, scheduled jobs, or robotic process automation, and prioritize opportunities by expected return on investment. For junior candidates this includes recognizing repetitive tasks and proposing simple automations; for more senior candidates this includes designing robust, maintainable automation pipelines, monitoring and rollback strategies, and aligning changes with stakeholders and compliance requirements. Emphasis is on measurement, incremental improvement, and maintainable implementation.