Describe deadline pressure, challenges, and decision changes
Overview
This question evaluates leadership, time- and scope-management, stakeholder communication, decision-making under pressure, and accountability competencies within the Behavioral & Leadership category for software engineering roles.
Amazon
Jul 26, 2025, 12:00 AM
Software Engineer
Technical Screen
Behavioral & Leadership
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Behavioral and Leadership Prompts — Software Engineer (Technical Screen)
Answer the following. Use clear structure, quantify outcomes, and explain your reasoning for scope, trade-offs, and communication.
- Hard deadline
- Describe a time you faced a hard deadline.
- How did you manage scope, trade-offs, and communication?
- Challenging project you led
- What was the project?
- What obstacles did you encounter and what specific actions did you take?
- Responsibilities outside your role
- Give an example of taking on responsibilities outside your role.
- Why did you do so and what were the outcomes?
- Changing a decision based on feedback
- Describe a time you changed your decision based on others’ feedback.
- What convinced you, how did you incorporate it, and what did you learn?
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