Technical Decision Making and Risk Management Questions

Evaluate the ability to identify technical risks early influence architecture decisions and manage tradeoffs between speed quality and long term maintainability. Topics include dependency risk scalability and reliability risks integration complexity mitigation strategies such as prototypes staged rollouts observability and automated testing frameworks for balancing technical debt against schedule and approaches to track escalate and communicate risk. Interviewers look for how candidates involve engineering teams in risk assessment make defensible technical choices and adapt decisions when new information arises.