Tell me about a time you had to make a decision without having all the information.
Explain the situation and deadline, what information you did have, how you weighed the risk, the decision you made and how you kept a fallback. Then share what you learned.
Explain it simply
In real work you rarely have every fact. Waiting for perfect data can be worse than a reasonable decision made on time.
Show that you gathered what you could quickly, thought about what could go wrong, chose the option that was easiest to reverse, and told people what you were assuming. This is judgement, which is what this question checks.
Example
Situation: Two hours before his college's technical quiz, Abhishek, the organiser, heard there might be a power cut, but the electricity office could not confirm it.
Task: Decide whether to keep the quiz in the computer lab or move it.
Action: He checked that the seminar hall had a generator backup, printed paper question sets as a fallback, and moved the quiz there. He informed participants through the class groups and kept two volunteers at the lab to redirect latecomers.
Result: The power did go off for 40 minutes, and the quiz ran without a break. He learned to prefer the option that keeps the event safe if his guess is wrong.
What to say in the interview
"I had limited information, so I gathered what I could fast, picked the option that was safest if I was wrong, kept a backup, and told everyone my assumptions."
Common mistakes
- Choosing a story where you guessed and got lucky.
- Saying you always wait for complete information.
- Not mentioning what you learned.