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Interview Prep · BehavioralTell me about a time you disagreed with a decision
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Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision

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Two failure modes, rolling over, and never dropping it, and the answer sits between them.


The question

"Tell me about a time you disagreed with a technical or product decision. What did you do?"

Expect: "What if you had been overruled and you were right?"

15:00Commit to an answer before you open the solution. Reading it first teaches you to recognise good answers, which is not the skill being tested.

Stuck?

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The worked solution

written by a person · not a grade

Score yourself

0 of 5 marked
  • Raised the disagreement directly, before the decision20
  • Brought checkable evidence rather than opinion25
  • Named something the other side had right20
  • Committed visibly afterwards without relitigating25
  • Honest about the outcome10

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