Making decisions under pressure are challenging and can lead to task paralysis. So, they're evaluating where you fall between being an asset versus a liability. How you answer this question serves to offer insights into your personality. It may clue them into what aspects of your job you view as challenging, andas well as your experience level. It also serves to clue them into how developed your leaderships skills are. As a leader, you are often required to make split decisions for the good of the team. The first steps to handling a difficult decision is by identifying what resources are at your disposal, gathering information, determining a strategy for moving forward, and diving in. Provide insights into your thought processes.

As with any behavioral question, it is framed in a way that asks you 'about a time' when you faced a situation in the past. Your interviewer will listen to your example and study how you responded to and handled the situation, and what you learned from it. They will take the information you share and view it as a predictor of what to expect from your performance in the future. When answering a behavioral question, the STAR method is the recommended approach to organizing your answer. STAR is an acronym for Situation, Task, Action, Result, and is intended to help you frame and organize your response in a way that will resonate with your interviewer. So you would start by introducing the situation you faced and the task at hand. You would then present the action you took, why it was significant and how you came to deciding on this approach, and ultimately the result of your actions.