Describe a piece of work where the expectations and rules were never made clear. How did you decide what good enough looked like?

Ambiguity can't be answered from process memory — the candidate has to show how they built their own scaffolding: what they inferred, what they asked, what they simply tried. It also locates their stalling point: how long they can keep moving without certainty before freezing or escalating everything.

• Where did you look for guidance before inventing your own?
• What call did you get wrong, and how did you catch it?
• How did the people relying on you know where things stood?

Guidance hunted down before being invented — precedent, adjacent teams, the assigner's intent — provisional calls made and revisited without drama, and their own working rules made explicit for whoever came next.

Stalled until instructions arrived, every judgment escalated upward, or the opposite: weeks of confident work in a direction nobody wanted, with no checkpoint along the way.