Business Strategy & Performance Topics
Business strategy, competitive analysis, market opportunities, and strategic innovation. Includes market research, competitive positioning, and business planning.
Infrastructure as Competitive Advantage
Articulate how infrastructure and platform decisions create measurable business advantage. Describe examples where architecture choices improved time to market reduced cost per transaction increased customer satisfaction enabled new products or geographic expansion or improved operational efficiency. Explain how to measure impact with relevant metrics and how to align infrastructure investments with product and business objectives. Discuss trade offs between speed cost and reliability and how internal platform services can be leveraged to amplify developer productivity.
DoorDash Business Model & Trade-offs
Analysis of DoorDash's business model within a platform-based marketplace context, including revenue streams (delivery fees, commissions, subscription), cost structure (logistics, driver incentives), partnerships, pricing strategies, market expansion decisions, and the strategic trade-offs between growth, profitability, and delivering value to customers.
Business Strategy and Alignment
Covers how projects, technical decisions, metrics, and operational governance are connected to an organization's strategic objectives. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to translate high level strategy into executable plans, prioritize initiatives that create measurable business value such as revenue, cost reduction, customer experience, or time to market, and recognize consequences of misalignment. Includes metric governance and dashboard ownership processes, defining metric definitions, assigning owners, managing technical debt in reporting systems, and evolving measurement as priorities change. Interviewers assess business literacy, use of business language when explaining technical trade offs, stakeholder communication, and examples where alignment succeeded or where misalignment created problems.
Business Objective Alignment & Value Creation
Ability to connect transformation initiatives to business objectives and organizational strategy. Understanding that technology is an enabler for business goals, not an end in itself. Knowing transformation investments should deliver measurable business value and competitive advantage aligned with strategy.