Choose best/worst actions in workplace ethics scenarios

You are taking a situational judgment test (SJT). For each scenario below, the test presents **four possible actions**. You must select: - **Most likely / best** action (what you should do) - **Least likely / worst** action (what you should not do) Assume you are a software engineer at a large tech company. Answer based on professional ethics, confidentiality, conflict of interest rules, and respectful workplace behavior. ## Scenarios 1. You proposed what you believe are strong product/UI ideas for YouTube, but your manager did not adopt them. 2. You are responsible for buying a company tool. A close friend’s startup sells a similar tool, and your friend’s company may fail soon without a large customer. 3. A newly joined PM is struggling to keep up technically and is being mocked by coworkers. 4. A friend working at a competing company that is close to bankruptcy asks you to share important customer information. 5. During annual performance review season, you discover the company system mistakenly attributed a coworker’s achievements to you, and you are barely meeting expectations. 6. During annual performance review season, a customer verbally promised to buy your product, and you need this deal to hit your goal. 7. A new teammate is not fitting into the culture and is being mocked by coworkers. 8. A customer offers you an expensive gift. 9. Your deadline is near. A coworker asks you to use code they wrote at their previous employer (a competitor) to finish faster. 10. You need to discuss a confidential report with a coworker, but they are on vacation and only have their personal computer. 11. A deadline is near. You need your manager’s approval to send confidential information to a customer, but your manager is already offline. 12. While you are at a coffee shop, your manager wants to discuss confidential information over the phone. 13. A competing company sends you a full-time job offer while you are still employed. 14. While traveling with a friend, they ask to borrow your work laptop to check their personal email. ### What to provide For each scenario: - State the **best** action and the **worst** action (even though the original test shows four options). - Give 2–4 sentences of reasoning referencing principles such as: protect confidential data, avoid conflicts of interest, integrity, anti-harassment, and proper escalation.