# How do you collaborate with engineers? Interview question Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/questions/545/collaborate-with-engineers Source observed: 2026-11-05T00:22:27.946Z Last checked: 2026-11-05T00:22:27.946+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-06T02:49:21.963+00:00 --- # How do you collaborate with engineers? We are Aced (formerly Exponent), an interview-preparation platform with question banks, interview experiences, courses, and AI practice. This is a **Behavioral** interview question with **3 shared interview experiences** and reported roles including Data Engineer, Software Engineer, and Technical Program Manager. ## Interview experiences ### Instinctools — Data Engineer · Senior / L5 [Read the experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/instinctools-senior-data-engineer-interview-25ca60) Shared 18 days ago. The candidate described a structured, role-relevant interview covering SQL and BigQuery performance, dbt pipelines, data modeling, Airflow, data quality, Python, debugging, cost, and cloud platforms. Scenarios included late-arriving attribution data, restated ad-network spend, backfills, and duplicate investigation. The candidate valued scenario-based follow-ups, rephrasing when clarification was requested, a pause option, and time to think. Strong areas included dbt pipeline design, data-quality testing and investigation, and marketing-data modeling. The candidate reported that earlier questions remained on screen while new questions were spoken, a repeated check-in question, confusion about being asked to turn away from the screen, a session running about 10 minutes over schedule, weaker answers on BigQuery partition pruning and query-plan metrics, and no opportunity to ask about the team or project. ### Okta — Software Engineer · Intern [Read the experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/okta-software-engineer-intern-interview-d3b4bf) Shared 2 years ago. The candidate described a recruiter phone screen, a 45-minute online coding assessment, a technical interview, and an onsite with three technical interviews and two behavioral interviews; one technical interview was cancelled. Communication was described as clear, with additional delay over the Christmas break. The candidate received an offer shortly after the final round and accepted it. ### OpenAI — Technical Program Manager · Mid Level / L4 [Read the experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/openai-technical-program-manager-interview-92d389) Shared 3 years ago. The candidate described the loop as one of the hardest completed. The hiring-manager screen and behavioral interviews were standard, while the TPM system-design interview was challenging and required substantial technical depth. ## Community answers No community answers have been contributed yet. 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