Operational Efficiency and Technical Debt Reduction Questions

Focuses on identifying and remedying manual toil and technical debt in infrastructure and operational workflows. Topics include discovery of high effort low value tasks, automation opportunities, refactoring brittle processes, prioritization frameworks for technical debt, building runbooks and operational playbooks, continuous improvement cycles, measuring impact with metrics and key performance indicators, and cost or risk trade offs when investing in long term fixes. Interviewers look for evidence of quantitative thinking, pragmatic prioritization, and measurable outcomes from efficiency initiatives.