Behavioral & Leadership: Conflict, Mistake, and Project Deep Dive

To assess collaboration, ownership, and technical leadership, answer the following three prompts:

1) Significant Disagreement

Describe a time you had a major disagreement with a teammate or stakeholder.

• The conflict: context, objectives, roles, and what you disagreed on.
• Your approach: how you surfaced facts, aligned on goals, and navigated resolution.
• Trade-offs: enumerate options and the pros/cons you considered.
• Outcome: decision made, results, and what you learned.

2) One Big Mistake

Discuss a significant mistake you made.

• The mistake: what happened and why.
• Detection: how you discovered it (signals/alerts/feedback).
• Remediation: immediate steps to contain and fix.
• Prevention: what you changed (process, tooling, guardrails) to avoid recurrence.
• Impact and lessons learned.

3) Project Deep Dive You Led

Walk through a project where you were the driver/lead.

• Goals and success metrics.
• Architecture: high-level components and data/control flow.
• Key decisions and trade-offs.
• Risks and mitigations.
• Metrics of success and observed impact.
• Lessons learned.