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In my last role I had to make a UX decision about the product that will balance functionality for the user without compromising performance. After testing a few options and validating it with internal stakeholders I released the updated UX, but then the CEO (who was a heavy user of the product) was against that change. I saw down with him and explained my reasoning and the process that I took to validate the solution, and gave him the option to try it himself on an early version. Once he saw the big picture he agreed that my solution was the right approach, but asked that next time I will consult with him before releasing changes like this. 

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.

During final stages of testing upgraded version of core banking applications, we encountered a defect which required resolution from development team. After dev deployed the defect, I had very limited time to thoroughly retest and perform regression.

My task was to perform retesting and make sure there are no major defects after the release.

After resolution, based on my prior knowledge of the apps I grouped those testcases that had a potential impact to run automation regression to speed up the testing. While I manually tested the defects with some edge case scenarios. 

I kept the cross functional team updated about the testing progress and the risk involved if testing wasn't completed on time. 

But, I was able to mitigate the risk of not completing the testing on time and major risk of unexpected issues with the help to prior knowledge and proactive communication.

Thus, I learnt from this incident to carefully strategizing the situation and collaborative approach can help to mitigate risks.

At my previous role, I was leading a fraud detection AI model deployment for a financial services client. The model aimed to reduce fraudulent transactions by 25% while maintaining a low false positive rate.

I was confident in the model’s performance in the test environment, but when we deployed it in production, we noticed an unexpected spike in false positives. Transactions flagged as fraudulent were legitimate, causing disruptions for customers and increasing manual review work. To resolve this, I:

1. Investigated the issue by comparing training and production data.
2. Identified data drift—the model was trained on historical data, but recent transaction patterns had changed.
3. Worked with data engineers to implement real-time data monitoring.
4. Retrained the model with up-to-date data and adjusted hyperparameters to improve generalization.

This fix reduced false positives by 25%, improved fraud detection accuracy, and ultimately saved $500M in operational savings across multiple initiatives. This experience taught me the importance of continuous model monitoring and proactively accounting for data drift. Now, I always incorporate data validation pipelines and feedback loops into AI deployments to prevent similar issues.

S（Situation）：在2024年9月底，我所在团队灰度上线了一个重要新功能。上线不久后，我们注意到产品的 NPS 分数出现了明显下滑。我的老板非常担心这个变化是由我们新功能引起的，因此建议我们暂停功能的进一步上线。

T（Task）：考虑到我们灰度期间已经收到不少正向的用户反馈和行为数据，我担心贸然暂停功能会影响节奏，并可能误判问题根源。我希望找出 NPS 下滑的真正原因，并用更稳妥的方式推进问题解决。

A（Action）：我首先分析了 NPS 下滑的时间节点，发现其发生在我们功能上线之前。结合用户评价存在滞后性的特点，我判断两者未必直接相关。随后我深入分析了近期的低分评价和客服 ticket，发现主要问题集中在打印出错、页面崩溃等历史遗留的功能性 bug。
我将这些发现整理成文档分享给老板，建议我们先优先修复这些问题，并继续观察 NPS 变化。同时，我也请他指出是否存在新功能相关的反馈痛点，以便一并跟进优化。我们快速完成了 hotfix，并验证后上线。

R（Result）：两周内，NPS 分数从 xx 回升到 xx（如能填具体更好），我们功能也顺利推进至全量发布，后续使用量增长了 xx%。老板也认可了我们以数据驱动决策的方式，对我在这件事中的判断力和推进力给予了肯定。

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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When buildling the next generation instance, during the planning phase I budget the amount of servers we will launch the product with. Given each server cost was over 2 million dollar I biased to towards frugality and provided a bare minimum number of server we could launch with. But what I completely missed was during the developement some servers will end up in bad state and the engineering team will short of servers to test the software and firmware getting built which made meeting the project timeline riskly and heavily dependent on delivery schedules of servers and them staying healthy. This quickly became a bottleneck that I realized. I quickly put togther a plan to request adittional server and provide a detailed breakdown on where and how these would be used during and after developement. Synced with the hardware and ODM team and executives to get a approval and ordered the parts to get the servers and racks build at ODM.