Influence Questions

An answer to an influence question must show four things:

• What other people did differently because of your work, and how you know it was because of your work.
• The means you used, such as evidence, a written proposal, a working example, or an opportunity you gave someone.
• Who made the final decision, when it was not you.
• How long the change lasted after you stopped working on it.

It must not claim four others:

• Authority you did not have. "I made the teams adopt it" is rarely true of a Staff engineer, and an interviewer will ask how.