Question: Imagine this scenario: Late one evening, before leaving work, you discover that your manager is falsifying your key performance index (KPI) numbers in an attempt to make your team’s results look better than they actually are. What do you do?
Alternative Question Phrasing:
- You find out that your manager has been buying followers and falsifying the numbers in monthly reports. What do you do?
Follow-up questions:
- Why?
- How do you think management would react based on your actions?
- How would you execute your next actions?
- What do you think would be the implications of your actions?
- How would you confront your manager?
- How would you or what would you do to become a whistleblower?
Question Details:
Question Type:
Work Context (Person-Job/Team/Org Fit):
Work Style (Person-Job Fit):
What to look for in an answer:
Primarily look for honesty and integrity in the interviewee. This may be hard as some interviewees may give the perceived model answer of whistleblowing in some form or another, but not actually do as they say in a real-life scenario. Try to push the interviewee to elaborate more and get them talking about how they imagining whistleblowing would actually look like to test their resolve in doing the honest thing.
Red Flags to Watch For:
The inability to see what their manager did is wrong is a definite red flag. The ability or inability to confront the manager or to whistleblow in some other way is not necessarily a red flag and can be situationally dependent.
Sample Answer:
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Question Source:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/marketing-interview-questions