Managerial: “Can you describe a time you re-prioritized a data-engineering roadmap when stakeholder needs shifted by 50% in scope?” Managerial: “How do you measure and improve team velocity when onboarding new technology under a three-month deadline?” Technical: “Design an ETL pipeline ingesting 10 million rows/day with <5-minute SLA and 99.9% uptime—what fault-tolerance and cost-controls do you implement?” Technical: “How have you handled schema evolution in a Parquet-based lakehouse serving both batch and sub-second BI queries?”