Organization Wide Influence and Impact Questions

Focuses on influencing outcomes beyond the candidate's immediate team and demonstrating measurable program level impact across the organization. Candidates should explain how they build coalitions, shape technical or operational direction, align programs to company strategy, and change organization practices. Includes mentoring and scaling others, setting vision for larger initiatives, prioritizing trade offs across teams, driving adoption of new processes or standards, measuring program success, and influencing without formal authority to create sustained organizational improvements.

HardTechnical

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Design a mechanism to enforce SLO-driven prioritization when product goals conflict with reliability (e.g., a feature will burn the error budget). Include how conflicts are identified, arbitration process, incentives/disincentives for teams, and automatic controls you might apply.

HardTechnical

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Create a set of KPIs to measure the maturity of an SRE program across the organization. For each KPI explain how you would collect it, what success looks like, and how you would validate whether changes in those KPIs causally improved business outcomes such as revenue, retention, or NPS.

HardTechnical

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Propose a 24-month program to shift an organization from 'heroic firefighting' to proactive reliability engineering. Describe interventions (process changes, tooling, recognition programs), short- and long-term metrics to track cultural change, a communication plan, and approaches to keep momentum after initial wins.

MediumSystem Design

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Design a cross-functional reliability council for a 100-team organization: define membership, mandate, decision-making rights, meeting cadence, KPIs to track, and how central guidance will balance with team autonomy.

MediumTechnical

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Describe how you'd design and enforce an error-budget policy that includes automated enforcement triggers (e.g., feature gating), an exception approval workflow, and communication templates for product teams. Explain sample thresholds and what actions each enforcement tier would cause.

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