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Behavioral
3 years ago
What would you consider your biggest accomplishments in your current role?
Data ScientistData Science ManagerEngineering ManagerUX Designer

Abbott

Tableau

N26

+5

I believe my biggest achievement is building a high performing team amongst a lot of chaos. I started as an engineering manager for replenishment team, soon due to restructuring I was asked to lead a different BU called Parcel and I was given the team from scratch, 8 months into this I heard the leadership is deciding to put Parcel on KTLO and give me a new tier 1 service called channels. This service was highly unstable with a lot of issues and tech debt. This service was transitioned among 4 engg manager in past three years (4th me). 

TASK

My job was to do a successful transition of this service and keep the team motivated

Actions

- When I got to. know about Parcel KTLO and having a new product under me, I wanted to ensure this is communicated to the team clearly with empathy and I wanted to ensure the team that this will only benefit their growth

- I started with a team meeting, shared a couple of wins that we did in parcel, shared even though we did so much, Parcel is being put on KTLO for various xyz reasons.

- I told them every crisis situation is an opportunity and by channels coming under us, we can showcase that even the toughest of the services can be maintained if the tech debt is continuously addressed

- Post team meeting I kept 1:1 with every member and listened them, helped answer their questions

- A couple of team members did share that they felt proud about what they developed in Parcel and were feeling sad that it was going in KTLO.

- I shared that products coming in KTLO happens sometime and this in no way reflects the teams performance, infact our teams reputation is very good amongst the leaders thats why they have given us the most important service (which is also in the worst shape)

- Under previous engg managers there was minimal to no improvement in the service on tech and product side because they were busy fixing on call issues

- I worked with the team to fix this by assigning ywo people to on call and rest two on fixing the issues from root cause. 

- In a couple of months this gave us brwating space since the oncall issues reduced directly impacting reduction in customer queries

- We got appreciated by leadership for this

Result

- Team members were highly motivated

- Learnt a lot

- Got appreciated by leadership for this hard works

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Behavioral
3 years ago
In your next job at Abbott, what are you looking for?
Data Scientist

Abbott

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Behavioral
3 years ago
Why are you looking for a job at the moment?
Data ScientistData Science ManagerEngineering ManagerUX Designer

Abbott

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Samsung

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Bolt

I have been working on same project since last 3 years, I want to explore different projects and learn new skills and Technologies with current market trends

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Behavioral
3 years ago
Tell me about an instance when you were proved wrong.
Data ScientistEngineering ManagerUX DesignerUX Researcher

Abbott

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nCino

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Grab

I recently took over a team from a different tribe, my approach was to observe what the team was doing and how I could best help them. 



One of the observations was that a team member was not contributing as much as was expected and ultimately was underperforming. I raised this with the previous line manager and he validated my concerns and said that he will likely get another developing in performance review and be put on a PIP. 



After some initial conversation with the individual, discussing what I've observed and how his not meeting expectations, I was pretty sure, this person was checked out and was likely heading for a difficult performance review



However, after some further discussion and people a relationship with that individual, they opened up and start to share their difficulties they were having. This then allowed me reach out the necessary teams to get them the support they needed. 



Utlimately, they proved me wrong, as due the the hard work with both put in, his on track for a good performance review 











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Behavioral
3 years ago
How did you come up with the most innovative idea you've ever come up with? How did you implement it?
Data ScientistData Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerUX Designer

Abbott

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NetApp

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Bill.com

+7

When I joined my new team , I took lead on a new project which was complex in nature, had many unknowns and our team had to work on new framework, techstack, data models. The team was following agile methodology and will start with the work in first sprint. there was no concept of zero sprint or story grooming prior to the start of first sprint.

with the existing approach I envisioned some issues:

1. Because the number of unknown were high, the chances of doing wrong estimations for development were high.

2. There were high chances that the prioritisation is not right and we might have to revisit the features again and again.

3.  We might find out about unknowns while we are in the development process and that might cause delays.

To overcome these issues, I suggested some changes in our approach:

1. Increase the planning for one more release cycle and group the features as now, next and later.

2. For the features planned in the now group , prioritise them for the next release and complete the research and PRDs for them one sprint early. That means dev and QA will have 2 weeks extra to go through the stories, find out the dependencies and share the feedback. This helped in identifying if we need POCs for any feature or we can right away start developing them. Or if further modularisation is required.

3. I suggested to track the features related to new project in a different group, because to begin with the pace of the delivery will be slow.

When we begin, we took one complete release only in the RnD and understanding the new framework and doing small POCs to validate our understanding.

From second release, when we as a team were ready with good understanding on the expectations and other tech dependencies we started delivering and we could complete 2 full flows from end to end.

We had very less amount of spillover and could complete almost everything in the backlog, which was a big issue in earlier releases.

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Behavioral
3 years ago
When have you gone an extra mile for a project or endeavor?
Data ScientistData Engineering ManagerEngineering ManagerUX Designer

Abbott

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Roblox

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PayPal

With a major product launch on the horizon, expecting to triple the user load. The infrastructure was non-optimized for demand and incident response was non-harmonious across teams with no set process.

As the SRE Manager, I'd have to implement project changes to infrastructure to accommodate high availability and scalability. I discovered a long-standing issue surrounding incident response and observability that would make it all the more difficult to achieve reliability under pressure and peak traffic.

Therefore, instead of fulfilling the project requirements as presented, I became an advocate for change across the organization. I established an observability platform with 100% stack coverage, created custom SLOs/SLIs/error budgets to enhance performance and reliability visibility, drafted and socialized an incident management playbook across the company and held hands-on trainings for all respective teams. In addition, I advocated for Terraform for Infrastructure as Code to help with deployment time and held FinOps reviews to help eliminate redundant costs in cloud spend.

As a result, we did not only survive the 3X traffic upon product launch with zero critical incidents, but we also achieved 15% saves the following years in cloud costs and 40% faster deployments. Many of the processes I created were adopted as company-wide best practices.

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Behavioral
3 years ago
Can you tell us about a time when you received unpleasant feedback?
Data ScientistEngineering ManagerUX DesignerUX Researcher

Abbott

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Sprout Social

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NCR

In the first company I worked as tech lead, even though my performance rating was good, I received a 360 degree feedback on my interpersonal skills as well. One of them said that I sounded a bit rude in couple of discussions. When I asked for the instances, I got examples where I got the feedback from and not whom. So I had to explain my manager that it was not intentional and the aggressive demanding nature of mine could have been perceived as rude. But I considered the feedback and identified, corrected myself, toned down the way I speak in certain instances which made a set of teams in my org ex: production support teams reach out to me more often now for guidance. So this helped me gain valuable experience and unlock a totally different perspective in terms of collaboration with other squads in the company.

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Behavioral
3 years ago
Describe a time when you assisted a colleague with his work. What happened as a result?
Data ScientistFull Stack Software EngineerProduction EngineerFrontend Engineer

Abbott

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Palantir Technologies

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Rebel Foods

+4

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

Answer:

Sure. I really enjoy helping others on the team, especially when they’re stuck and not sure how to move forward.

S – Situation:
Once, someone on a neighboring team was struggling with a production issue for a few days. I noticed that he seemed frustrated and wanted help, but didn’t quite know how to ask.

T – Task:
After finishing my work early one day, I proactively messaged him on Teams and offered support. He was happy, but mentioned he wasn’t even sure how to describe the problem clearly.

A – Action:
So I sat down with him and tried to understand the issue. He told me that after one of his code changes went live, a dropdown component in our shared UI broke — its layout was completely messed up, even though his change didn’t touch that component directly.
I helped him debug the issue step by step. After ruling out rendering or layout bugs, I noticed the problem was actually due to a CSS variable conflict — the styles weren’t properly isolated, which caused unexpected overrides.
Together, we fixed the CSS scoping issue and verified the dropdown worked as expected.

R – Result:
The bug was resolved and the fix was shared with the wider team via email, to prevent similar issues in the future. My teammate was really grateful, and after that, our collaboration improved significantly.

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Behavioral
3 years ago
In your opinion, how would you improve Abbott?
Data Scientist

Abbott

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Behavioral
3 years ago
If you were to get the Data Scientist job, how would you improve Abbott?
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Abbott

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