[Behavioral] Tell me about a time a dependency caused major trouble and what you did.

Instruction: Answer this as a project story where a dependency issue seriously affected the project and you had to respond.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can respond effectively when cross-team dependency risk becomes real.

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I was on a project where one upstream dependency kept getting reported as stable, but the real commitment behind it was softer than the plan assumed. Once that upstream work slipped, several downstream pieces compressed at once: testing got tighter, handoffs got messier, and the team was suddenly trying to protect too many things at the same time.

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