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Angry customer role-play

A spoken role-play where the interviewer plays a customer whose time-sensitive order has gone wrong, and the candidate is the support agent on the call. It tests de-escalation, explaining a problem plainly, staying within policy and closing with a clear plan. Follow-ups push the candidate to say the actual words they would use, not to describe them.

Suits: Customer support agent, Customer service representative, Call centre agent, Customer experience specialist

Questions
6 stages
Length
30 min
Format
Voice
Levels
Junior to Mid
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • De-escalation30%
    • Ownership and resolution30%
    • Clear communication20%
    • Policy judgement20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • De-escalation30%
    Calms the customer by listening and acknowledging before solving.
  • Ownership and resolution30%
    Owns the problem and offers a real, realistic fix.
  • Clear communication20%
    Explains what went wrong and the next steps in plain words.
  • Policy judgement20%
    Stays within policy while being fair to the customer.
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