Handle conflict, priorities, and ownership scenarios

Q: Handle conflict, priorities, and ownership scenarios

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Behavioral interview prompts

Answer the following behavioral questions. Use concrete examples from your experience.

Disagreement / conflict

Describe a time you disagreed with someone (peer, cross-functional partner, or manager).
How do you generally deal with conflict?

Different perspectives leading to a better design

Tell me about a situation where different stakeholders had different perspectives that led to different design choices.
How did you merge the differing opinions into a better final design?

Priorities / deadlines

What do you do when a deadline is very tight?
How do you handle multiple deadlines at the same time?

Ownership scenario (two variants)

Scenario A: You are starting a new project tomorrow, but you notice a bug in another team’s project (not owned by you). What do you do?
Scenario B: Same situation, but the bug is in your existing project. The existing project and the new project have no direct dependencies. What do you do differently (if at all), and why?

Constructive critique of the company

In what ways do you think a large company like Google could do better?

Handle conflict, priorities, and ownership scenarios

Behavioral interview prompts

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