Tell me about a time when you assisted a colleague in his work.What was the result?

I was part of a large program which did the gift registry modernization for a large retailer. I was leading the data modeling and migration, and a colleague was leading the front-end development. This was a large program involving a lot of vendors and status and progress were discussed daily in a meeting. I found my colleague struggling to provide an accurate progress report - specifically he could not come up with some of the estimates and dates for his items. I decided to help him out and started talking to him on his process. He mentioned that he was a first time project manager and was struggling to get data from another team to calculate his estimates. We brainstormed together on what the other teams' output and delivery dates can be and came up with few assumptions. My colleague was able to come up with some numbers and dates based on the assumption. I also coached him to present the numbers as an estimate like "As per out assumption, which is X, I have 80% level of confidence that Z API will take 100-125 hours to develop and will be completed by the weekending 15th February". This opened up conversations and provided more data. My colleague was able to give more accurate estimates and dates within the meeting itself.  

I can tell you a story when I was a student because I was not working before helping my friend to produce her report with some observations and arrangement of tables and in her memoirs with some ideas to improve it for example location of photos, titles, and deletion of some details which are not interesting 

A colleague approached me seeking assistance with a complex coding challenge. They were struggling to optimize a particular algorithm for a project. I offered to review their code and provide insights into potential improvements. After analyzing the code together, we identified areas where they could refactor certain functions to make them more efficient. Additionally, I suggested alternative approaches that might yield better performance.

As a result of our collaboration, my colleague was able to implement the suggested changes and significantly improve the speed and efficiency of the algorithm. This not only helped them meet project deadlines but also enhanced the overall performance of the system, leading to positive feedback from stakeholders. Our collaboration strengthened our professional relationship and fostered a culture of knowledge sharing within the team.