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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 · Resource Constraint

You're leading platform engineering. AWS just announced a price increase that adds $340K/year to your infrastructure costs, effective in 60 days. Your CFO says the budget is locked. Migration to another cloud would take four months minimum and cost $200K in engineering time. Your CEO asks if you can 'optimize our way out of this' without cutting features.

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