Scope and Time Management Questions
Covers prioritization, time boxing, and communication strategies to manage limited time during design interviews, sprints, or engineering work. Topics include identifying core user flows versus edge cases, setting a minimum viable solution, planning and communicating what will be built within a time budget, explaining trade offs and next steps when work is incomplete, showing realistic time awareness and delivery sequencing, and demonstrating the ability to focus on high value deliverables under tight deadlines.
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Technical/algorithmic: Describe an algorithmic approach (high-level or pseudo-code) to schedule tasks with varying deadlines, values, and durations on a single team's calendar to maximize total delivered value under a fixed time horizon. Discuss complexity, whether the problem is NP-hard, and practical heuristics you would use in an engineering org.
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Explain time boxing and how you'd apply it during a 2-hour design interview and a 4-day sprint. For each scenario, list the timebox lengths you'd choose, the concrete outcome for each box, how you track progress during the boxes, and the exact steps you take when a box ends but work remains.
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What does 'time awareness' mean for a software engineer during a design interview and in a sprint? Give concrete behaviors or artifacts you would produce to demonstrate strong time awareness in both contexts.
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Scenario: This week you must handle two high-priority production bugs (one is critical) and deliver a small user-requested enhancement. Outline an explicit schedule showing who does what, how you protect the enhancement work from being derailed, and how you communicate priorities to stakeholders.
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Compare two prioritization frameworks: RICE and MoSCoW. For a feature backlog of 10 items, explain when you'd prefer one over the other and provide a short example of scoring a single feature using RICE (include reasonable numeric values).
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