How do you handle situations of conflict in the workplace? You will inevitably face some of these at Meta - what methods have you found to be effective that you could apply here?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

My philoshopy is conflits are inevitable, if managed correctly we all can grow
as a team to be better engineers.
At XYZ, we were working on a re-architecting our system to microservices. Our
DBA was not happy with the approach as from his view - his scope was diminished
as we moved away from Store Procs .. he had disagreement with my Sr. Dev on the
approach. I had to diffuse this as it would impact the velocity and morale - so
I set up a meeting with both of them. I had my Sr. Dev explain why this approach
would be beneficial in the long term for us and its advantages. I also knew the
DBA concoernt and pointed that his role is not diminished but expanded in other
areas. He was happy to learn and grow in new areas - and the outcome was that
both were happy that this was resolved and i could see a productivity incease
from both the team members fro them on. (I would say 10% increase)

Anonymous · Answer

There was one person who seem to not like me very much. I joined this team and
she was already a senior person. I got bigger projects to work on as I was a top
performing person. She wanted to grow but she felt I will get growth and not
her. So, she started being not too friendly, making unfriendly remarks etc. To
handle it, I kept my cool, showed my best behavior and I ignored her comments.
When the situation arose where she was in trouble, I helped her debug a complex
issue. Since then, she did not bother me much.

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