Describe feedback, conflict, and missed metrics
Overview
This question evaluates interpersonal leadership and problem-solving competencies in software engineering, focusing on giving and receiving critical feedback, resolving peer and cross-functional conflict, and course-correcting when metrics are missed, and is categorized under Behavioral & Leadership.
Roblox
Sep 6, 2025, 12:00 AM
Software Engineer
Onsite
Behavioral & Leadership
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Behavioral & Leadership: Feedback, Conflict, and Course Correction (Software Engineering)
Context: You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role. Use concrete examples from software projects (e.g., code reviews, on-call, feature delivery, cross-functional work with PM/design/data/infra).
- Giving critical feedback
- Describe a time you gave someone critical or negative feedback.
- Why was it necessary?
- How did you deliver it?
- How did they react?
- What changed afterward?
- Handling conflict with peers or cross‑functional partners
- How do you handle conflicts with peers or cross‑functional partners?
- Walk through a recent conflict, your approach to resolution, and the outcome.
- Course-correcting when success metrics are missed
- If a project's success metrics are not met, what steps would you take to diagnose issues, realign stakeholders, and course‑correct?
- What would you do differently next time?
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