Coach note
Situational questions test reasoning under hypothetical pressure. Interviewers want to see the constraints you name, the trade-offs you choose, and the assumptions you flag.
Situational · Crisis Response
You're a tech lead. A critical service your team owns is getting 10x normal traffic from a new partnership that marketing launched without engineering input. It's holding for now but you're at 85% capacity. Scaling properly takes two weeks. Your manager wants to 'ride it out' to avoid looking unprepared. You're on-call this weekend and the partnership press release goes out Monday.
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