Technical · Difficulty 4/5

Capacity planning for a launch

A PM interview practice question for PM, SENIOR, PM-T candidates.

The prompt

Marketing is planning a campaign that will spike traffic 4x for a week. Walk through the capacity-planning conversation with engineering, and what your decision rule is if costs blow up.

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Round: Technical
Target levels: PM, SENIOR, PM-T
Source: original · Reviewed by PrepOS seed