Demonstrate leadership, innovation, and learning via STAR
Overview
This question evaluates a candidate's leadership, innovation, stakeholder influence, risk mitigation, prioritization, time management, conflict resolution, and reflective learning skills in a Data Scientist context.
Capital One
Oct 13, 2025, 9:49 PM
Data Scientist
HR Screen
Behavioral & Leadership
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Behavioral & Leadership (Data Scientist, HR Screen)
Instructions
Answer each prompt concisely using the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Quantify outcomes where possible and call out risk mitigation, prioritization, and verification steps.
Prompts
- Innovation: Describe an idea you initiated that changed a team process or product. Quantify impact and explain how you de‑risked it.
- Accomplishment: Share a high‑stakes goal with an immovable deadline. How did you prioritize, influence stakeholders, and verify success?
- Mistake: Describe a consequential error you made. How did you detect it early, contain the blast radius, communicate, and institutionalize the fix?
- Time Management: Two urgent, conflicting deliverables. Walk your triage framework, trade‑offs, and what slipped.
- Conflict: A principled disagreement with a peer or manager. How did you create options and reach a decision? What would you do differently?
- Leadership: An example of leading without authority. How did you motivate others and measure follow‑through?
- Growth: A strength you leveraged and a weakness you mitigated in the last 6 months. Provide evidence and next steps.
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