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Question 20 of 35
Tell me about the most rewarding experience you have had while working in a team environment. What made it so satisfying?
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Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
Microsoft prides their workplace on their 'One Microsoft' mindset, where they truly act as a family of individuals united by a single, shared mission. To do this, teamwork is vital. With this question, your interviewer at Microsoft ideally wants to hear that you feel accomplished through teamwork. Talk about a time when you felt fulfilled through a team setting or project collaboration. An example may be a time when you worked on a team project during your college experience or a recent work collaboration. Discuss the positive results of teamwork and how you attained a positive outcome as a group. Don't hesitate to talk about the role that you played in that team environment to show your interviewer how you work effectively as part of a larger team.
Rachelle Enns is an interview coach and job search expert. She works with candidates to perform their best in employment, medical, and post-secondary admission interviews.
"My software development team was not getting along a few years ago, so I reached out to an external team-building consulting service. With their help, we organized a day full of development exercises that were meant to draw our team closer to each other by developing a sense of trust and camaraderie. This experience was incredibly rewarding because I saw relationships and bonds quickly form. I had a plan in place for keeping the momentum over time, which has also worked well to this day. Looking back, trust and communication were huge issues on this team and I learned that these two things can be fostered with a little effort."
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This is a very brief answer. Give the interviewer more insight into what motivates you by talking in more detail about your most rewarding experience in a team setting. Why did you enjoy it? What made your team succeed? What did you accomplish?
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