Sample Answer
On a previous growth team, our PM wanted to launch a “smart recommendations” widget in two weeks to hit a marketing date. The ask included real-time personalization and cross-device history, but our data platform only supported nightly batch jobs and we had a single ML engineer shared across three teams. Instead of just saying no, I put together a one-page proposal with three options: the full vision (estimate: 3–4 sprints), a phased MVP using our existing batch data (1 sprint), and doing nothing. I spelled out impact and risk for each, including expected latency, infra cost, and what could break under peak load. In a working session with PM, design, and data, we aligned on the MVP: daily-updated recommendations for web only. That hit the date, lifted click-through by 11%, and we later iterated to near real-time once we’d upgraded the event pipeline.
Keywords
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