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The Vetoed Refactor

Tell me about a time you strongly believed a significant piece of technical debt needed addressing, but your product manager or lead flatly disagreed due to feature deadlines. How did you handle the impasse, and what was the outcome for the codebase?

Key concepts

conflict resolutiontechnical debtinfluence

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