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title: "Module Overview: Senior/Staff Level Interview Questions"
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summary: "Answer governance, compliance, and architecture leadership questions."
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# Module Overview: Senior/Staff Level Interview Questions

**"How do you ensure architectural standards across a large organization?"**

This module covers questions typically asked in **senior/staff engineer interviews**. These test your ability to:
- Lead architecture decisions
- Enforce standards and best practices
- Handle compliance and regulatory requirements
- Design for large-scale organizations

## Interview Questions You'll Master

- "How do you enforce architectural standards?"
- "Design a system that must comply with HIPAA/SOC 2"
- "How do you ensure security across microservices?"
- "How do you handle compliance in a distributed system?"

## What Interviewers Look For

- ✅ Understanding of governance and policies
- ✅ Ability to enforce standards at scale
- ✅ Knowledge of compliance requirements
- ✅ Leadership and architectural thinking
- ✅ Trade-offs between flexibility and standards

## Goals

- Answer governance questions confidently
- Define policies with Sruja
- Explain compliance requirements
- Discuss enforcement strategies

## Interview Framework

We'll follow this approach:
1. **Understand Requirements** - Compliance, standards, scale
2. **Define Policies** - Security, compliance, best practices
3. **Model with Sruja** - Show policies in architecture
4. **Discuss Enforcement** - How to ensure compliance
5. **Address Trade-offs** - Flexibility vs standards

## Estimated Time

45-60 minutes

## Checklist

- [ ] Understand policy syntax and usage
- [ ] Define security and compliance policies
- [ ] Model policies with Sruja
- [ ] Explain enforcement strategies
