diff --git a/.bazelrc b/.bazelrc
index d5f7ab38c2..485c35ce84 100644
--- a/.bazelrc
+++ b/.bazelrc
@@ -137,6 +137,31 @@ build:remote --bes_results_url="https://source.cloud.google.com/results/invocati
 # This allows us to avoid installing a second copy of node_modules
 common --experimental_allow_incremental_repository_updates
 
+# This option is changed to true in Bazel 0.27 and exposes a possible
+# regression in Bazel 0.27.0.
+# Error observed is in npm_package target `//packages/common/locales:package`:
+# ```
+# ERROR: /home/circleci/ng/packages/common/locales/BUILD.bazel:13:1: Assembling
+# npm package packages/common/locales/package failed: No usable spawn strategy found
+# for spawn with mnemonic SkylarkAction.  Your --spawn_strategyor --strategy flags
+# are probably too strict. Visit https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7480 for
+# migration advises
+# ```
+# Suspect is https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/blob/master/internal/npm_package/npm_package.bzl#L75-L82:
+# ```
+# execution_requirements = {
+#     # Never schedule this action remotely because it's not computationally expensive.
+#     # It just copies files into a directory; it's not worth copying inputs and outputs to a remote worker.
+#     # Also don't run it in a sandbox, because it resolves an absolute path to the bazel-out directory
+#     # allowing the .pack and .publish runnables to work with no symlink_prefix
+#     # See https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_nodejs/issues/187
+#     "local": "1",
+# },
+# ```
+build --incompatible_list_based_execution_strategy_selection=false
+test --incompatible_list_based_execution_strategy_selection=false
+run --incompatible_list_based_execution_strategy_selection=false
+
 ####################################################
 # User bazel configuration
 # NOTE: This needs to be the *last* entry in the config.