Sample Answer
In my last role, I started one Monday focused on a planned process audit that was due by the end of the week. I had a smaller item in my backlog: a handful of customer complaints about delayed confirmations on a “low-risk” workflow. Within an hour, our ticket volume on that issue jumped from 3–4 a day to over 40, and our NPS for that segment dropped 12 points overnight. That was my signal we’d misjudged the priority. I paused the audit, pulled data from our CRM and phone logs, and confirmed the spike with our support lead. I messaged my manager right away with a short one-page summary: impact, root-cause hypothesis, and a 24-hour action plan. Then I set expectations with the audit stakeholders, gave them a revised timeline, and scheduled two check-ins. By the end of the day, we’d implemented a workaround that cut new complaints by about 80% and stabilized NPS within a week.
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