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Building Trust as a Program Manager: Key Insights from a Challenging Team Dynamic
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Interview Transcript (SNIPPET)
Candidate Answer (excerpt)
...or they wouldn't be as willing to do that as opposed to why I'm asking for it. Uh, and why is it important? So kind of focusing on the reasoning.
Interviewer Insight
At this point of the interview, candidate is mapping to L5 at best. There is a lack of polish and experience depth which is creating the impression of a junior employee who cannot manage large a complex tasks. This is raised here because coming into the interview the leveling of the candidate was unclear based on resume, provided JD, and an effective change of industry.
Follow-Up Question
And so Separate from uh the situation you stepped into at the at J&J, um, are there any times where you can give me examples where you had, actually let's let's contain this to people within your company, uh, where you had particularly challenging time building trust with a group inside of your own organization.
Candidate Answer (excerpt)
Hm. Inside of organization. Right Challenging time-building trust. I can't think of anything. Let me think of that.
Expert Assessment (EXCERPT)
There were basic strategies on display from the candidate as to how they would work with teams to Earn Trust, but what did not come through was a set of examples in dealing with incredibly complex or nuanced issues in cross-team management. In addition, there were no examples of...
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