[Stakeholders] A stakeholder keeps changing what they want from week to week. How do you handle it?

Instruction: Explain how you handle a stakeholder whose requirements shift often enough to create risk for the team.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can manage moving requirements without reacting emotionally or passively.

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I would first try to understand whether the change is coming from genuine business evolution, unclear thinking, or poor requirement framing earlier in the process. If I treat every change as stakeholder indecision, I may miss the fact that the environment is actually moving or that we never clarified the need properly to begin with.

Once I understand the pattern, I make...

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