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How would you handle a situation where a colleague was being very difficult to work with?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
In the team-based atmosphere at Pinterest, departments with different skills and backgrounds can often see things from different points of view. These situations can cause some internal conflict between coworkers. With this question, your interviewer is looking to hear how you handle situations where you are working with someone who can be difficult. To give them the sense that you can work through conflict professionally and sensibly, try to talk through how you handled a conflict at work previously in the past and highlight the interpersonal skills that you used to help make it a positive situation.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"In all honesty, any great work atmosphere that I've been a part of in the past has involved a conflict between colleagues. In situations I have witnessed, the conflict has stemmed from very open-minded people giving their two cents in particular situations and two people not seeing eye to eye. This happened recently to me in the planning phases of a new project. One of our UX Designers and I disagreed on the final layout of a new software rollout we were planning. It worked best for us to talk about our ideas and list the pros and cons of our ideas. I kept an open mind to learn from her point of view, and she did the same to me on my end. This led us to come up with a great compromise in the end."
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