[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you had to learn a new business domain quickly.

Instruction: Answer this as a story about ramping up quickly in a new process, industry, or system domain.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can onboard into unfamiliar domains without freezing or faking expertise.

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I joined a project once where the domain was new to me and the team was already under delivery pressure. I knew I could not become an expert overnight, so I focused on learning the parts of the domain that mattered most to the project first. I reviewed the core process, met with the key subject matter experts, learned the most important business...

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