Demonstrate leadership in cross-functional disagreement
Overview
This question evaluates leadership, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, experimental design, and metric-driven decision-making competencies in a data scientist context, with emphasis on trade-off reasoning and end-to-end execution.
ByteDance
Oct 13, 2025, 9:49 PM
Data Scientist
HR Screen
Behavioral & Leadership
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Behavioral & Leadership (HR Screen, Data Scientist)
Prompt
Describe a time you disagreed with a partner team (e.g., product pushing for more aggressive monetization versus your concern about user retention) and still drove end-to-end execution.
Include
- The decision you proposed and why.
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The specific metrics and targets you used to measure success:
- Baseline values
- Expected lift
- Acceptable regression and guardrails
- How you structured the experiment and rollout (design, ramp, stop/kill thresholds).
- How you navigated cross–time-zone collaboration (e.g., US–Asia with 6pm sessions for 2–4 hours) to reach alignment.
- One explicit trade-off you accepted and why.
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