Engineering Decision Making and Leadership Questions

Covers how technical leaders and engineers make architecture and implementation decisions while enabling team autonomy and organizational alignment. Areas include engineering judgment in trade offs between performance, reliability, maintainability, and speed; processes for making and communicating technical decisions; governance models such as centralized versus distributed decision making; handling cross team disagreements; managing technical debt; and establishing accountability for technical outcomes. Candidates should show methods for gathering engineering data, involving relevant stakeholders, and ensuring decisions are followed and revised as needed.