Describe a Trade-off Design Change
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This question evaluates system design trade-off decision-making, technical leadership, and communication by probing how an individual balances competing goals and constraints when changing an architecture.
Tell me about a time when you changed a system design because of an important trade-off. Explain the original design, the competing goals or constraints, the options you considered, why you changed direction, and what outcome the change produced.
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