Welcome to your interview for the Product Manager role at Amherst Holdings.
The question is on your right: Prioritize Work Under Tight Capacity. Take a moment with it first.
Talk your thinking through with me if you like - when you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen. You have three graded attempts to score 7/10 or better.
You are the Engineering Manager for a B2B automotive software team. Your roadmap includes a dealer-facing search improvement, a reliability fix for lead ingestion, and a compliance update tied to a new data retention policy. You can only ship one major item this quarter without slipping the next release, and each stakeholder believes their request should go first. The sales team says the search work will unblock renewals, support says the ingestion bug is creating daily escalations, and legal says the retention change has a hard deadline.
How do you decide what work should be done now versus later?