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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 · Negative Signal

You're responsible for substation assets. Dissolved-gas analysis on a critical transformer with no available spare shows combustible gases trending upward across three consecutive samples. The manufacturer's rep says levels are still within acceptable limits and recommends routine monitoring. Summer peak is ten weeks away. What do you do?

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The rate of change matters more than the absolute numbers — a sustained upward trend across three samples is an incipient fault signal even inside limits, so I’d act on the trend.…

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