Tell me about a time, you used a creative solution to solve a really difficult problem.
Interviewers want to know that you are capable of solving unique problems. If you aren't able to solve problems creatively and quickly, the executive staff has to get involved, which takes time away from managing the business at a high level. Knowing you can creatively solve problems gives the interviewer confidence that they won't need to micro-manage or handhold in complex situations.
"My current team collaborates with our data team closely. The data team has an exceptionally high workload, and they have a continual backlog. Knowing that it would be a while before they could get to our teams' requests, I found a course online that taught the basics of building a data set. I then launched it to our team to upskill everyone. This upskilling allowed us to do the lower-level tasks before passing them to the data team, and our data requests took half the time."
