[Behavioral] Tell me about a time you aligned a cross-functional team around a hard decision.

Instruction: Answer this as a project story where different functions did not initially agree and you helped create alignment.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can help teams move through disagreement into a usable shared direction.

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I was on a project where the release plan was stuck because different functions were optimizing for different things. One group cared most about speed, another cared about operational stability, and another was focused on downstream support impact. Everyone had a valid point, but the conversation kept circling because people were arguing from their own perspective instead...

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