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Interview · Behavioural

Leadership and ownership

For senior and staff candidates: setting direction, leading without authority, deciding under uncertainty and owning results, good and bad. It suits senior individual contributors and leads. Follow-ups push for the trade-off they weighed and what it cost them.

Suits: Senior software engineer, Staff engineer, Team lead, Senior product manager, Head of operations

Questions
6 of 17
Length
30 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Senior to Staff
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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

    • Direction setting30%
    • Influence25%
    • Judgement25%
    • Accountability20%

    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.

  • Direction setting30%
    Frames problems and sets a clear course others can follow.
  • Influence25%
    Brings people along without relying on authority.
  • Judgement25%
    Weighs trade-offs openly and makes timely calls under uncertainty.
  • Accountability20%
    Owns outcomes, including failures, and communicates them early.
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