Mock Interview: Written Strategy Exercise

Exercise. Write a one-page technical strategy for reducing the marketplace's 38-minute CI builds over the next year. Your reader is the VP of Engineering. You have 90 minutes, and the facts below are all the information available.

• The marketplace has 400 engineers in 45 teams. The developer tools team, with 6 engineers, owns continuous integration (CI), the system that builds and tests every change before it is merged.
• The median build takes 38 minutes. From a survey, the developer tools team estimates that engineers spend about 300 hours a week waiting for builds.