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Tell me about a time when you made an unpopular decision

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Title is self-explanatory . You may find this question hard to come up with a story initially. However, one way to think about this problem is that for example you could think about a case where you made a process improvement that the team was so used to, focusing on the following pieces: - how did you detect the inefficiency? - how did you advertised your plan? - who did you collaborate with? - how did you manage the communication with stakholders and teams?

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