The story goes something like this: There’s this marketing manager who is trying to time a launch. The marketing manager begins prepping for the release.
The interview starts with this question about the timing of dev releases and the relationship between developers and other constituencies, particularly the marketing organization.
Harbaugh and Kodumal, CTO, founded the company on the premise that software development and releasing software is arduous.
So, a marketing organization can send a release out even after the developer team has released it into production.