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A customer keeps expanding the scope mid-project. How do you handle scope creep?

Scope creep quietly kills deployments and burns trust on both sides. Interviewers want to see you protect the timeline without becoming the team that says no to everything. Here is the move.

Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Applied AI Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.

Scope creep quietly kills deployments and burns trust on both sides. Interviewers want to see you protect the timeline without becoming the team that says no to everything. Here is the move.

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