Your question is What You Look for in a Leader. Take a moment with it on the right.
Talk me through your thinking if you like. When you're confident, submit your answer and I'll grade it like a real screen (7/10 or better passes).
What do you look for in a leader?
Please focus on the qualities, behaviors, and decision-making practices that make someone effective, especially in a software engineering environment. Explain how those qualities affect team trust, execution, communication, and accountability. Support your view with a specific example from your experience where a leader demonstrated, or failed to demonstrate, those traits, and describe what you learned from it.