Cross Functional Requirements Gathering Questions

Covers the end to end practice of eliciting, synthesizing, and prioritizing input from multiple functional partners including engineering, design, analytics, trust and safety, operations, and business stakeholders. Interviewers will assess processes for stakeholder identification and engagement, techniques such as structured interviews and cross functional workshops, and the ability to translate diverse inputs into clear product requirements, acceptance criteria, and testable success metrics. Candidates should demonstrate how they surface and reconcile conflicting priorities, document constraints such as legacy system limitations, negotiate scope and timelines, and align requirements to roadmap goals and measurable outcomes. Emphasis is also placed on communication cadences, dependency management, and using data or experiments to validate assumptions and reduce risk.