Ambiguity is the norm in real work. They want to see you reduce uncertainty actively rather than freeze or guess silently and build the wrong thing.
How to approach it
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1. Ask the questions that change what you'd build
2. Find the goal behind the request (the "why")
3. State your assumptions in writing and confirm them
4. Build a thin slice, demo early, adjust fast
Worked example
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S: A ticket said "add a dashboard" with no detail on metrics or users.
T: Building blind risked weeks of wasted work.
A: I asked who'd use it and what decision it drove, wrote down three assumptions,
and built a clickable prototype of the top two metrics first.
R: The demo surfaced that they actually needed exports, not charts. We pivoted
after two days instead of two weeks.
