[Behavioral] Tell me about a time documentation was poor and you had to stabilize the project.

Instruction: Answer this as a story about stabilizing live work when the documentation was unreliable or fragmented.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can restore order on a project suffering from weak analysis artifacts.

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I joined a project where the existing documentation had been updated inconsistently over time, and different teams were referencing different versions of what they thought the requirements were. Instead of trying to rewrite everything immediately, I focused on stabilizing the project around the parts that were still actively driving delivery.

I met with the...

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