Describe a time when you took an unpopular stance in a meeting with peers and your leader. What was it? Why did you feel strongly about it?

Tell me about a time when you took on something significant outside your area of responsibility. Why was it important? What was the outcome?

Give me an example of an initiative you undertook because you saw that it could benefit the whole company or your customers, but wasn’t within any group’s individual responsibility so nothing was being done.

Describe a time when you needed to influence a peer who had a differing opinion about a shared goal. What was the situation? What did you do? What was the outcome?

LP - customer obsession question

LP - ownership question ?

LP - learn and be curious

LP - Earn Trust question

LP - Deliver results question

Solved a complex problem simply?

When did you realize you need deeper expertise to solve a problem?

When did you take an unpopular stand? Even told manager off? What if your manager told you to do something? How would you react?

Dive deep into technical problem solving example. What structured process?

Driven design change for hardware quality/reliability?

Supplier audit, key finding, sustainable correction?

Job/role/task outside your area of responsibility? How did you do it?

What Initiative I took that had a huge impact? Why this way? How is it scalable?

Different opinions about same goal vs team or manager?

Used metrics to identiy issues? What metric? How did it achieve improvement?

When did you refuse to compromise quality?

Novel approach to solving a problem?

When did you start doing something and then realize it is wrong approach and changed?

When did you propose something and didnot get support from others?

When did you fail to achieve something?

Sample Questions: Tell me about a time where you sought out perspectives other than your own to make a product/service/project better? Tell me about a time when you had to analyze facts quickly, define key issues, and respond immediately to a situation. What was the outcome? Give me an example of a time you used customer feedback to drive improvement or innovation. What was the situation and what action did you take? Tell me about a goal that you set that took a long time to achieve or that you are still working towards. How do you keep focused on the goal given the other priorities you have? Tell me about a time when you linked two or more problems together and identified an underlying issue? Were you able to find a solution? What three things you are you working on to improve your overall effectiveness? Give me an example of when you took an unpopular stance in a meeting with peers and your leader and you were the outlier. What was it, why did you feel strongly about it, and what did you do? Tell me about a time you wouldn’t compromise on achieving a great outcome when others felt something was good enough. What was the situation? Tell me about a time you made a hard decision to sacrifice short term gain for a longer-term goal. How do you drive adoption for your vision/ideas? How do you know how well your idea or vision has been adopted by other teams or partners? Give a specific example highlighting one of your ideas. Tell me about a time when you realized you needed to have a deeper level of subject matter expertise to do your job well?