US engineering interview: this answer sounds clean, but the panel may hear no trade-off.
"I built the feature and shipped it on time."
No trade-off, no option weighed, no constraint. US panels score the decision and the why.
We had two options: a quick patch or a queue rewrite. I chose the queue rewrite because the patch would fail again at scale. It took two extra days and cut error rate by sixty per cent.
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