Interview prompt
Problem context
Leadership mandates chaos engineering after a major outage. Teams run demo-friendly instance kills, but real incidents come from slow dependencies, bad configuration, quota exhaustion, and organizational handoffs. Design a program that safely tests meaningful hypotheses and leads to funded changes.
Skills being evaluated
resilience strategyexperiment designorganizational learningrisk governance
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Establish scale assumptions
Functional and non-functional requirements
High-level architecture
Data model and flow
Consistency and transaction boundaries
Failure modes and recovery
Security and privacy
Observability and SLOs
Capacity and cost
Alternatives and trade-offs
Evolution and migration
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