Behavioral & Leadership: Team Culture, Feedback, Ambiguity, and Disagree-and-Commit
Context: You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role during an onsite behavioral and leadership round. Provide specific, recent examples. Using STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) is encouraged.
Questions
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Team Culture
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What team culture enables you to do your best work?
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How have you actively contributed to shaping that culture?
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Disagreement or Difficult Feedback
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Describe a time you navigated a disagreement or gave/received difficult feedback.
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What actions did you take?
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What was the outcome?
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Ambiguity, Values Alignment, and Disagree-and-Commit
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How do you handle ambiguity?
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How do you align on values with a team?
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When and how do you decide to disagree-and-commit?