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What will you do if feedback is not positive?

What will you do if feedback is not positive?

How do you react to negative feedback?
Do you get angry or disheartened? The interviewer needs to understand how do you react to negative feedback.
Pick up a project or performance appraisal, where the feedback was not good.
How did you react? Show you stayed calm, listened carefully, analysed the situation, tell the lessons learnt, actions taken on feedback. Show what you learnt and how it helped you in future.
Do's
• Tell about the project, its complexity, the performance gap
• Show your listening abilities
• Show lessons learnt and how you improved
Don'ts
• No I am the perfect guy.
• I was angry and disappointed
• Do not talk ill about the situation or the people
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•Tell me a situation in which you found that your results were not up to your manager's expectations. What action did you take?
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