Hello!

There are a few things the interviewer is looking for here:

• Can you make bold decisions? (e.g., launching something yours, etc.)
• Do you calculate risks?
• Do you learn from your mistakes? Hence, don´t limit the story to the loss itself but also your learnings from it
• etc.

I would pick a story regarding you betting for something (e.g., project, startup, etc.) that then failed.

Hope it helps!

Cheers,

Clara

Hi Martins,

I personally never ask such questions since I expect rehearsed answers - but that's for another day.

The reason behind is two-fold:

1. How well did you prepare your decision upfront - was it a structured, logical process on how you came to that decision.
2. Once you understood in hindsight that it was not the very best decision which you could have taken - was your process to derive that decision (point 1) good enough nevertheless to stick with in principally, and in addition to that what are the key take-aways for your further improvement for such situations in future?

Hope that helps - if so, please be so kind and give it a thumbs-up with the green upvote button below!

Robert

Hi Martins,

I can see tthat by your anwer you might be assessed on how:

• You take risky desicion and you calculate risks

• You ability to make conclusion out of mistakes

• How well your assess the given situation to take such desicions.

Hope it helps,

Best,

André