Behavioral question

Tell me a time when you had to challenge a teammate's unpopular opinion.

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Backbone and communication skill, checking you can disagree productively without damaging the relationship or team dynamic.

Situation: describe the opinion and why you believed it was worth challenging, being specific about what was at stake.
Task: state your goal, surfacing a concern constructively, not simply proving the teammate wrong.
Action: describe how you raised it, ideally privately first, with specific evidence or reasoning rather than just a gut objection.
Action: describe how you handled their reaction, showing you listened and remained open to being wrong yourself.
Result: state the outcome, whether they changed their view, you changed yours, or you reached a middle ground, being honest about which happened.
Result: reflect on how the relationship was afterward, showing the disagreement didn't damage collaboration.

Raises the disagreement privately and with specific evidence, showing tact rather than a public confrontation.
Shows genuine openness to being wrong, not just a rehearsed 'I convinced them' narrative.
Gives an honest outcome, which might be a compromise or the other person changing your mind, not always a clean win.
Reflects on the relationship afterward, showing the disagreement was handled in a way that preserved trust.

Describing a confrontational or public challenge that damaged the relationship.
Claiming you were unambiguously right and convinced everyone, which reads as one-sided.
Not describing the reasoning or evidence used to raise the challenge, just the fact that you disagreed.

Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.