What is your answer to this question?Interviewers dont seem to like my answer. At a high level, my answer is that I tried to change a painful process and didnt fully take the people side of the equation into consideration, and was overruled by management. I know, not the best answer. But I couldnt think of anything else. Anyone have good examples theyve heard from candidates or from their past experience? I have reason to believe its cost me two offers so far :(
Tell us your answer. May be we can give you some feedback.
I can pm it. I could be identified if I posted it
It’s less about what the failure was and more about what you learned from it and what you would do differently next time. I’d say your failure isn’t exactly “big”, because process changes take a lot of effort. Effort to persuade people something is wrong with the current process, effort to persuade people that your proposal is the way to go, and effort to make it a culture that people follow. Process changes fail all the time, so it likely seems superficial. Now if your process change led to the company losing a ton of money after it went in place, that’s a failure.
This. They thought it was a superficial or bs answer. I have lots of examples of management making bad decisions that led to lost time or money. But it’s hard to come up with big failure examples from my own experience, not being in a position of power or influence.
Ever chosen a bad algo and needed to rewrite that code, checked in a bug that needed to be rolled back / lost customer data, held back from challenging a bad process or product decision that cost the business money? You don’t need to be in a position of power to make a big mistake. Again, it’s all about being self critical and learning from your mistakes. You need to be able to identify them before you can learn from them.
Hired!
This!
Had a question on how to persuade people to go along with your point of view. Gave answer on win-win situations, but did not fly.
I think that answer is ok if it is followed up by a situation where you show you learned the lesson and succeeded. There is no issue with failing. The important thing is have you been able to take that lesson to change your behavior?
Your example end up "it was overruled by management". That part is an excuse to push the failure off of you. It may be what happened but the telling of it could be a story of learning. A retroactive understanding of what you know now. The steps that should have been taken to influence people. If there was nothing you could have done, then use a different situation of as an example.
It’s all bullshit. And all we are being asked is to present it in a palatable way.
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