Describe a time a layoff or reorg left your team owning work that used to belong to someone else. How did you decide what to absorb, what to drop, and what to push back on?

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Make the trade-off visible — what got dropped, and why. Quantify if you can; if you can’t, be specific about the signal. Show how the prioritization stuck (or didn’t).

Describe a time a layoff or reorg left your team owning work that used to belong to someone else. How did you decide what to absorb, what to drop, and what to push back on?

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