Technical Communication and Decision Making Questions

Focuses on the ability to explain technical solutions, justify trade offs, and collaborate effectively across engineering and non engineering stakeholders. Topics include articulating design decisions and their impact on reliability performance and maintenance, walking through solutions step by step, explaining algorithmic complexity and trade offs, asking clarifying questions about requirements, writing clear comments documentation bug reports and tickets, conducting and communicating root cause analysis, participating constructively in code reviews, and negotiating quality versus delivery trade offs with product and operations partners. Interviewers evaluate clarity of expression, reasoning behind decisions, and the ability to make choices that balance short term needs and long term quality.

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Easy coding-communication: Given a short Python function that computes factorial, write a one-paragraph comment suitable for the public codebase explaining its purpose, inputs, expected outputs, and complexity. Include an example usage in the comment.

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Medium: As an engineer, you're asked to condense a complex technical decision into a 3-sentence TL;DR for a weekly product newsletter. Write that TL;DR for a migration to a new storage backend that halves read latency but requires a brief maintenance window.

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Describe how you would explain Big-O time complexity differences between O(n) and O(n log n) to a new engineer who is comfortable with coding but unfamiliar with asymptotic notation. Use an example problem and a brief visual or thought experiment.

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Explain, in a ticket you will hand to QA, why a change that reduced latency by 50% may still be considered incomplete if it increases error-rate during traffic spikes. Include acceptance criteria that QA can test.

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You're handed a one-line failing unit test without context. List the clarifying questions you'd ask to understand the requirement and scope before attempting a fix (aim for 6–8 focused questions).

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