Behavioral question

How do you prioritize requirements?

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What this question tests

Whether the candidate has a repeatable prioritization framework and can tie it to a real decision, not just recite buzzwords.

How to approach it

  1. Clarify whether the interviewer wants a general framework or a specific story, and offer to give both, starting with the framework.
  2. Name the framework used, for example RICE, reach, impact, confidence, effort, or an impact versus effort matrix.
  3. Explain how inputs are gathered: customer requests, usage data, engineering estimates, and business goals.
  4. Describe how conflicting stakeholder asks are weighed against a shared north star metric.
  5. Ground it in one concrete example of requirements actually ranked and cut using the method.

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