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# Frugality

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Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size or fixed expense.
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* Tell me about a time when you had to work with limited time or resources.
* Tell me about a time when you had to work with incomplete data or information.
* Tell me about a time when you have been faced with a challenge where the best way forward or strategy to adopt was not “clear cut”. How did you decide the best way forward.
* Give me an example of a time when you had to make a split second decision.


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