Behavioral question

Your sales team has just reached out to you with a $100M deal where your product has a missing capability that is a deal stopper. Your Engineering Team is already busy working with another key feature for the rest of the year. How would you prioritize these requests?

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What this question tests

How the candidate prioritizes under real commercial pressure, using a structured story about trading off a big deal against a committed roadmap.

Set up the situation: the deal size, the missing capability, and what engineering is already committed to.
State the task: decide whether and how to reprioritize without derailing the other commitment.
Describe the action: quantify the deal's value against the cost of delay, and loop in sales, engineering leads and the exec sponsor.
Show a structured decision, such as scoping a minimum version of the missing capability instead of the full ask.
Give the result: whether the deal closed and the actual impact on the delayed feature's timeline.
Note what you would confirm if hypothetical: deal terms, engineering capacity, and reversibility of the other commitment.

Uses real tradeoff language: opportunity cost of delaying the current feature versus the deal's ARR and strategic value.
Shows negotiating a scoped MVP of the missing capability instead of an all or nothing yes.
Involves the right stakeholders rather than deciding alone.

Saying yes to the deal without examining the cost of delaying the other feature.
Vague answers with no numbers or named tradeoffs.

How did you communicate the delay to the team working on the other feature?
What would you have done if engineering said the capability was impossible in the deal's timeline?