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# Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?

We provide this behavioral interview question as part of Aced's interview-preparation library. Questions like this are often asked at Amazon to assess a candidate's fit with Amazon's Leadership Principles.

## Question details

- **Category:** Behavioral
- **Reported interviews:** 60
- **Additional roles represented:** Software Engineer (18), Product Manager (15), Technical Program Manager (8), Engineering Manager (3), BizOps & Strategy (2), QA Engineer, Solutions Architect, Machine Learning Engineer, Program Manager, and security.
- **Companies represented among the question data:** Google (5), Amazon (5), Microsoft (5), Meta (4), Stripe (3), Anthropic (3), Apple (2), OpenAI (2), DoorDash (2), Nvidia (2), Sidecar Health, Salesforce, Esri, C3 AI, NASA, Robinhood, Accenture, LendingClub, Uber, fastenterprise, Paytm, Walmart Labs, Motorola Solutions, eBay, Indeed, Hubspot, Capital One, Audible, Expedia, NA, Asana, Better.com, Dropbox, Slack, and Rakuten.
- **Reported last asked:** 19 days ago at the source observation shown here.

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## Interview experiences

We include 26 shared interview experiences connected to this question. The entries below retain the role, timing, contributor wording, and destination link supplied with each experience.

1. [Sidecar Health — Product Manager, Staff / L6](https://www.aced.io/experiences/sidecar-health-staff-product-manager-interview-bf7e6c), 19 days ago: “Process was straightforward. Hiring Manager round was rigorous and onsite panel was mostly focused on Behavioral questions”
2. [Salesforce — Product Manager, Intern](https://www.aced.io/experiences/salesforce-product-manager-intern-interview-4aa53d), 20 days ago: “Pretty light interview cycle, basic PM prep is needed. More AI heavy and focused on prompt engineering and being able to use AI tools live in an interview, but not too bad overall. Most surprised by the AI heavy cases but recruiter went deep into detail before the interview.”
3. [Apple — Software Engineer, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/apple-senior-software-engineer-interview-a33f8a), a month ago: “The process was very fair and there was a clear emphasis on communication and culture fit. Everyone I interviewed with was very pleasant and encouraging. My one complaint would be the sense that the recruiter was not helpful or informative when it came to preparing me on what to expect. Technical rounds emphasized practical ability and had strong correlation to the responsibilities of the role.”
4. [Esri — QA Engineer, Entry Level / L3](https://www.aced.io/experiences/esri-qa-engineer-interview-4dd55f), 2 months ago: “Interviews is quite good, and interviewers kept it more conversational. Be more confident. Prepare the technical skills mentioned in your resume.”
5. [C3 AI — Software Engineer, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/c3-ai-senior-software-engineer-interview-d81c63), 3 months ago: “The process focus on your project experience a lot and interviewer will dig into your project. It also have many behavior questions.”
6. [NASA — Product Manager, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/nasa-senior-product-manager-interview-538b3e), 5 months ago: “Process was fairly rigorous for compensation, but interview questions were reasonable. Overall, very doable.”
7. [Robinhood — Engineering Manager, Principal / Director / L8+](https://www.aced.io/experiences/robinhood-principal-engineering-manager-interview-16c245), 5 months ago: “The process went well. The screening round itself has two interviews: the behavioral one and the technical one. I didn't do well on the technical one, so the behavioral one was very much a formality, and it was very clear that the person had seen the feedback.”
8. [Accenture — Software Engineer, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/accenture-senior-software-engineer-interview-845686), 6 months ago: “it went ok for the most part. i should have focused a bit more on front end technologies for the role”
9. [LendingClub — Software Engineer, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/lending-club-senior-software-engineer-interview-1376f5), 7 months ago: “The interviews are easy/medium difficulty for an experienced engineer. The first coding round includes Java-related questions before moving on to an easy LeetCode-style problem. There is no virtual onsite; candidates are required to go to the office in San Francisco, and there are four rounds in total. The interviews are very friendly and feature relatively easy-to-solve problems.”
10. [Stripe — Product Manager, Staff / L6](https://www.aced.io/experiences/stripe-staff-product-manager-interview-663989), 7 months ago: “My Stripe process felt pretty easy overall, and I clicked with a lot of the interviewers. After the recruiter screen, where they gave me the comp range early, the main loop had a technical round, an analytical round, an execution round, and an extra UX round because this role was tied closely to the homepage and design work. Their heaviest focus was on my data-analysis skills. The technical and UX rounds felt pretty natural to me, while the behavioral execution questions were harder because they asked me to summarize complicated situations fast. I do not have an outcome to share here, but the process itself felt manageable and not especially adversarial.”
11. [Uber — Software Engineer, Staff / L6](https://www.aced.io/experiences/uber-staff-software-engineer-interview-6b1b44), 7 months ago: “I got in through a referral, had a lightweight recruiter call, then an initial coding screen, and then a five-round final. The final was two coding rounds, one system design, one past-project round that turned into a behavioral deep dive, and one straight behavioral. What stood out was how much Uber cared about technical depth over polished cross-functional storytelling, especially for a staff role. Even the coding rounds felt like they wanted system-design-style tradeoff thinking, and they gave me the Number of Islands variant in the final coding round.”
12. [Apple — Engineering Manager](https://www.aced.io/experiences/apple-engineering-manager-interview-4e34b3), 7 months ago: “The whole process took about three months from the first screen in late November or early December to finishing in mid-March. Apple felt tighter than other companies because I had two real screens before the onsite, and the engineer screen was already basically an in-depth system design round. Every onsite round was tied pretty closely to the actual job on this observability team, especially storage migration, host cost, and working across a matrix organization. The most unusual part for me was the cross-org partnership round with a cost management stakeholder, and the so-called code review that turned into live coding from scratch. After the loop I waited about four weeks and heard they were still interviewing other candidates, which matched the feeling that they were being very selective about exact fit for this role.”
13. [fastenterprise — Software Engineer, Entry Level / L3](https://www.aced.io/experiences/fastenterprise-software-engineer-interview-650315), 8 months ago: “The process was technically almost trivial. They focused a lot on your communication, and how you would work with clients less on pure technical skills. The 3 rounds were all pretty easy, outside of the initial conversation they all took 2+ hours each.”
14. [Google — Product Manager, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/google-senior-product-manager-interview-ffd98c), 9 months ago: “I got in through a referral, and a recruiter reached out. I went through a more generic L6 PM loop. The process itself was streamlined: recruiter screen, one PM screen, then a four-round final covering behavioral, product design, analytics, and strategy. The whole thing felt very Google in the sense that it was generic rather than team-specific, but the follow-up pressure was higher than I expected and there really felt like there was no room for error. I didn’t get the L6 offer.”
15. [Paytm — Product Manager, Principal / Director / L8+](https://www.aced.io/experiences/paytm-principal-product-manager-interview-7ef3f0), 9 months ago: “It was easy and helped me understand the role better before asking questions. This helped me tailor my responses better”
16. [Amazon — Product Manager, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/amazon-senior-product-manager-interview-f6df3b), 9 months ago: “I went through a very Amazon-style process for a Senior Product Manager L6 role: recruiter screen, hiring manager, then several additional rounds. The whole loop was heavily centered on leadership principles and past work examples, and honestly every round felt pretty consistent in structure. The biggest thing that felt newer was the AI layer on top, where they asked how I had used AI at work and how I integrated it into product development to drive innovation or simplification. I did not find it especially tricky in the sense of on-the-spot problem solving, but they absolutely expected crisp storytelling and strong follow-through on metrics. The toughest part was being ready for sharp follow-ups on why I made certain decisions and how I arrived at the numbers I used.”
17. [Anthropic — Software Engineer, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/anthropic-senior-software-engineer-interview-2ffa5f), 10 months ago: “I did a hard pre-assessment first, then the recruiter fast-tracked me because I already had other offers and got me through the rest of the loop in about a week. The onsite was five rounds for me: hiring manager, coding, company values, system design, and then another coding round. The most unusual part was the company values interview, which was run by nontechnical people and felt almost like a therapy session because they kept probing how I felt, not just what I did. The technical rounds were more practical than I expected, while the behavioral side was where I felt the real pressure. I finished the loop, but at the time of this conversation, I was still waiting on the outcome.”
18. [Anthropic — Software Engineer, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/anthropic-senior-software-engineer-interview-2ffa5f), 10 months ago: “I did a hard pre-assessment first, then the recruiter fast-tracked me because I already had other offers and got me through the rest of the loop in about a week. The onsite was five rounds for me: hiring manager, coding, company values, system design, and then another coding round. The most unusual part was the company values interview, which was run by nontechnical people and felt almost like a therapy session because they kept probing how I felt, not just what I did. The technical rounds were more practical than I expected, while the behavioral side was where I felt the real pressure. I finished the loop, but at the time of this conversation, I was still waiting on the outcome.”
19. [Meta — Software Engineer, Staff / L6](https://www.aced.io/experiences/meta-facebook-staff-software-engineer-interview-57171d), 10 months ago: “The process started with a recruiter screening testing some behavioral questions and some technical questions she read from a question bank. Then, I did a coding interview online. Finally, a 4 rounds loop online (as opposed to my previous attempt when I did the loop in one of their London (UK) offices): 2 coding interviews, 1 system design, 1 behavioral with an engineering manager.”
20. [Amazon — Solutions Architect, Staff / L6](https://www.aced.io/experiences/amazon-staff-solutions-architect-interview-dde222), a year ago: “Interviewers were supporting, he was happy to repeat/rephase questions. Some of the questions I was blank even the question was super easy but I was not able to answer”
21. [Microsoft — Software Engineer, Mid Level / L4](https://www.aced.io/experiences/microsoft-software-engineer-interview-89b7e7), a year ago: “I interviewed for an SC2 software engineer role on Microsoft's Experience + Devices team, focusing on Copilot integration into the Microsoft 365 suite. After I applied, I got a standard engineer screen that was pretty easy, then they moved quickly into a 4-round final loop over 2 days, which felt like they were on a hiring drive. The weird part was that every final-round interviewer was principal-level, and almost every round, even the system design and hiring manager rounds, was still basically coding. The hardest round by far was a file system prompt where I expected a standard system design, but they wanted a low-level design coded up with classes and multiple use cases in 45 minutes. I still have no official outcome because the recruiter ghosted me for a month after the loop, so honestly, this ended up being the worst interview experience I have had with any company.”
22. [Walmart Labs — Machine Learning Engineer, Staff / L6](https://www.aced.io/experiences/walmart-labs-staff-machine-learning-engineer-interview-74d005), a year ago: “The interview process was smooth, the worst experience was that even after completing all rounds of interviews I was finally rejected saying they had a lot of applications”
23. [OpenAI — Software Engineer, Senior / L5](https://www.aced.io/experiences/openai-software-engineer-interview-5a7d13), 2 years ago: “A recruiter reached out to me cold by email, and the process itself matched what they told me almost exactly. I had a quick recruiter screen, then a long phone screen that was really two interviews back to back: a Playground design prompt and a coding problem around credits. After that I did a virtual onsite that was only three rounds, about four hours total, with a refactoring exercise, a past-project presentation with slides, and a leadership conversation. I ended up getting rejected, and the clearest signal I got afterward was that scale mattered a lot, especially in the project presentation round. One weird process detail is that a different recruiter reached back out to me again a few months later, so my impression was their internal tracking and cooldown handling were not especially tight at that point.”
24. [Indeed — Product Manager, Mid Level / L4](https://www.aced.io/experiences/indeed-product-manager-interview-f332f6), 2 years ago: “Recruiter was good at communicating throughout and the interviewers seemed really engaged in the process. Excitable about their space. There is a product design portion where, given a prompt and UX snippet, users are asked to design a solution to the prompt. You are given about 30 min and then are grilled on that. There’s a basic analysis portion ensuring you can read basic data and infer decisions.”
25. [Hubspot — Product Manager, Mid Level / L4](https://www.aced.io/experiences/hubspot-product-manager-interview-a8f144), 2 years ago: “Process was smooth. Recruiter was incredible and very communicative. They provided good verbal feedback and enough tips on each round to adequately prepare. People I interviewed with were all kind and seemed neutral vs certain companies where it feels like they want you to fail.”
26. [Amazon — Program Manager, Intern](https://www.aced.io/experiences/amazon-program-manager-intern-interview-a783a3), 2 years ago: “The interviewers were current program managers and was not my hiring manager. You don't know what team you will be on until after you get your offer.”

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