2 min lesson
Client simulation & values round
Put yourself in this case: "A migration you committed to will slip a week. Draft the opening 20 seconds of that call to the customer's lead engineer." Give the clearest next step.
Step 1 of 3
An FDE lives at the seam between the customer's senior engineers and your own delivery. The behavioral round probes whether you can hold that seam under pressure: deliver bad news honestly, keep the relationship and own the outcome in the first person.
Two things get tested here. Your customer craft when the news is bad and your fit with a flat, truth-seeking, high-intensity culture. Both fail the same way - vague, rehearsed-sounding, “we” instead of “I.”