Cross Functional Collaboration and Conflict Resolution Questions

Building relationships and credibility across teams, influencing without formal authority, and resolving misalignments. Expect discussion of habits that build trust, processes for aligning engineering and product leadership, techniques for mediating disagreements, negotiating tradeoffs, handling difficult stakeholders or pushback, and restoring alignment after conflict. Interviewers look for examples that demonstrate empathy, clarity, options generation, and durable resolutions that preserved delivery goals.