Sykes Enterprises HireVue Mock Interview

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Question 7 of 30

What was the toughest challenge you’ve faced?

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Kevin Downey
Kevin Downey

Kevin Downey has an extensive background in business management, recruiting, branding and marketing. He's volunteered his career coaching services at job fairs, lecturing on interview techniques and crafting winning resumes and cover letters.

"I was part of a team responsible for building bots for a platform. We divided our team into three sections - two for monitoring and security, two for flagging spam, and two for testing our security. Somehow, things got off track with the team. First, the patchwork we implemented resulted in a spaghetti algorithm, and the problems escalated. Secondly, the project turned into a not-so-friendly competition to see who could outperform each other's work, hurting the group's productivity and causing us to lose sight of the project's intention. It also created some strain and friction between certain individuals on the team. I pointed this out and influenced everyone to work together on developing each set of bots in stages. I encouraged each team member to rotate partners. This way, everyone got to work closely with everyone else, spotting each other's work. This diverse collaboration fostered our teamwork mentality and created a situation where we over-performed as a group, turning our project around."