Glossary term
What is trade-off? Meaning for developers
In Practical Design Problems
A choice that gains one thing and loses another. A good answer names both sides and says when you would choose the other way.
Learn it properly · Practical Design ProblemsLesson 0: How to Run a Practical Design InterviewRequirements, API, data model, main algorithm, scale and failure, trade-offs. A frame you can repeat for every design question that follows.In Team Lead Mindset
You get one good thing by giving up another. Faster to build, but harder to change later.
Learn it properly · Team Lead MindsetLesson 0: How a Team Lead Thinks: The Questions Behind "Why?"The six-step answer shape (goal, options, choice, reason, risk, plan B), how to think out loud, and a map of the questions a lead asks.