Data engineers serve many stakeholders:
"How do you prioritize competing requests?"
Show your framework: business impact, urgency, effort, dependencies. You don't just work on whoever asks loudest.
"Tell me about a disagreement with a stakeholder."
Common scenario: Analyst wants custom pipeline. You think self-serve solution is better. How did you handle it?
- Listened to understand their actual need
- Proposed alternative that solved the underlying problem
- Compromised where appropriate
- Documented the decision
Never badmouth stakeholders. Show collaboration.