Distyl AI·Software Engineer·Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership
Jun 2026
Behavioral round at Distyl AI for a software engineer role. Just one question but it had a lot of moving parts and I spent probably too long on the setup before getting to the actual conflict.
- Tell me about a time you had to push back on a stakeholder request. Walk through what was being asked, why you said no, how you communicated it, and what happened to the relationship afterward.
“I went with a story about a PM pushing for a deadline I knew was going to create serious technical debt.”