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The most difficult question during the interview was “Tell me about a decision that had to be made where your team members didn’t see “eye-to-eye” on, and how did you handle it?”. This wasn’t a particularly difficult question to answer based on my background—I pulled from team experiences that I had led in the past, but can see how this could be a tricky question to answer (underlining purpose of this question is to determine if you have a “dictator” approach, if you tend to side with one group, or if you aim to bring your team together in the middle to find a compromising proposition).
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Senior Systems Engineer

Interviewed at Mars

4.3
Dec 5, 2013

The most difficult question during the interview was “Tell me about a decision that had to be made where your team members didn’t see “eye-to-eye” on, and how did you handle it?”. This wasn’t a particularly difficult question to answer based on my background—I pulled from team experiences that I had led in the past, but can see how this could be a tricky question to answer (underlining purpose of this question is to determine if you have a “dictator” approach, if you tend to side with one group, or if you aim to bring your team together in the middle to find a compromising proposition).

General questions on Object oriented programming, and creating an OOP scenario in a programming language of my preference. Followed by a question asking me to describe any challenging technical situation and it's resolution (in my career).
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Senior Software Engineer

Interviewed at Qualtrics

3.6
Jun 21, 2016

General questions on Object oriented programming, and creating an OOP scenario in a programming language of my preference. Followed by a question asking me to describe any challenging technical situation and it's resolution (in my career).

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