Engineering Velocity and Execution Questions

Evaluates how a candidate measures and improves the ability of an engineering organization to deliver software quickly and reliably. Topics include defining and tracking flow and velocity metrics such as lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change failure rate, mean time to recovery, cycle time, and work in progress. Candidates should explain practical levers for accelerating delivery including continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, automated testing, release engineering, and feature flagging; organizational levers such as small cross functional teams, clear ownership, minimizing handoffs, and limiting batch size; and process levers such as rapid feedback loops and post deployment monitoring. Strong answers show how velocity improvements were implemented, how bottlenecks were identified and removed, how trade offs between speed and quality were managed, and how gains were measured and sustained.