Bar Raiser: Architecture, Influence, and Values

A senior behavioral and architecture deep-dive round covering a complex system you designed, technical trade-offs, conflict and standards-setting, and examples tied to customer focus or ownership. Requirements Describe a complex system architecture from your past work, including the major technical choices and trade-offs you owned. Explain how you handled a technical disagreement inside the team and how you drove adoption of technical standards. Give a concrete example demonstrating customer focus or ownership in the context of Uber's values. Expect follow-up questions that separate your individual decisions and impact from the broader team's work. Preparation Prepare one architecture story with explicit constraints, rejected alternatives, decision criteria, and measurable outcome. Prepare one influence story that shows how you resolved disagreement without relying only on authority. Map two concise STAR stories to customer focus and ownership, with enough technical detail for a senior interviewer to probe.