Sample Answer
On my last team, product wanted to launch a “smart recommendations” feature in six weeks, tied to a major marketing campaign. On paper it sounded doable, but once I dug in, I realized our core service was still on a monolith with some pretty nasty technical debt: slow cross-module calls, no proper feature flags, and a brittle deployment pipeline that caused 10–15% of releases to roll back. Instead of just saying “no,” I came to the product manager with two concrete options: ship a slimmed-down version using precomputed recommendations, or spend the next sprint investing in refactoring the relevant module and adding safe rollout mechanisms. I showed them error rates, deployment stats, and historical incident data. We agreed on a phased rollout: first stabilize the backend, then release an MVP version of recommendations. We hit the campaign date, cut related incidents to essentially zero, and used the new foundations to iterate much faster over the next quarter.
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