Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

i haven’ encountered a situation like this.However if I found some idea wrong I
will challenge it with respect and professionalis,If i were to face this
situation in future my approach would be open communication and understanging
each other perspectives and discussing potential solution to find common grounds
through which we can move towards a unified direction

Anonymous · Answer

At Auctane, while my team was in the middle of the rewrite - for refund module,
The PMs wanted a new feature to the legacy system, I pushed back on the switch
as it would cause a lot of churn for my team. PM got my Manager involved and
convinced that this was a good idea to release new feature on monolith. My
manager aggreed for this swap, I was disaggreed with this decision but commited
to the change in direction.
I breifed my team with this change, and we could accomate the feature request
after negotiating the scope of the microsystem re-write.

Anonymous · Answer

It was when we were preparing data for warranty negotiation, my boss asked me to
prepare data past 3 years back but I didn’t agree because data should be data to
be used since last negotiation on 2018.
I told my boss about history of this topic and told her that the more sample we
had, the more   opportunity to win negotiation.
then I prepared 2018-2024 data and reviewed together, we found that by comparing
data between 2020-2024 and 2018-2024, warranty responsibility is much lower. We
both agreed to use 2018-2024 data for negotiation and the result as we expected,
we got the ratio as we proposed.

Anonymous · Answer

i always  remain calm, however in my last project i have given the methodology
that were not useful for customer needs. i accepted but it didn't work until i
had deep down discussion with my line manager and suggest the best way to  dealt
with the situation, i defended my case proffesional and with evidences, and got
accepted.

Anonymous · Answer

I was leading a high visibility critical project from CEO to build a software
that captures a comprehensive 360 data view of our consumers. This data can then
use to drive new revenue opportunities and understand our consumers' interests,
objectives and experiences. As we were about to ship the software, product
manager requested an additional feature to allow an external client access to
our APIs. This would require changes in design and delay our launch.
Additionally this would require approvals from data privacy team as user data
can be transmitted to external clients over the public internet. I disagreed
with product manager, as I believed this would put our project at risk but
thanked her for this new feature which will increase revenue in future. I
proposed a two-phase approach: first, we would launch the current version for
our internal clients, then we would develop the additional feature in the next
phase. This would minimize risk and allow us to thoroughly test the new feature.
Product manager was initially hesitant about the delay but I was able to
convince her by presenting a detailed plan and timeline that showed how we could
manage the additional work without compromising the security and data privacy
issues. This experience taught me the importance of strategic thinking, clear
communication, and standing up for what I believe is best for a project. In a
subsequent project, when a similar situation arose, I was able to apply what I
learned from this experience and handle the situation more effectively,
resulting in less tension within the team and a more successful project outcome.

Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss

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