Interview prompt
Problem context
A Staff candidate is asked to propose a new regional event platform. Reviewers include product, security, finance, SRE, and domain teams, but the organization has no formal rubric. Create the RFC and review process that surfaces the decisions senior reviewers actually evaluate.
Skills being evaluated
architecture communicationdecision framingrisk analysisreview facilitation
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Clarify the decision
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
What Staff and Principal candidates should emphasize