[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you handled competing priorities across many open requests.

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In one role, I had a stretch where several open requests all looked urgent from the requester point of view, but they carried very different business consequences. If I treated them all the same, I was going to spend the week reacting to whoever pushed hardest rather than protecting what mattered most.

So I triaged by impact, time sensitivity, and reversibility, communicated the priorities...

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