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title: How do you build trust with someone new?
description: Interview · Culture & Collaboration · Question 33
section: mind
tags: [interview, culture-and-collaboration]
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lastUpdated: 2026-04-17
url: https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/mind/interview/culture-and-collaboration/how-do-you-build-trust-with-someone-new
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By doing the thing I said I would do, when I said I would do it, at the quality I implied.

When I started working with the agency founder, I was a college student with no portfolio and no healthcare experience. There was no reason for her to trust me. The trust was built entirely through delivery. I said I'd replace WorkEasy. I replaced it in two days. I said I'd build a practice management system. It's serving four agencies. I said I'd fix the referral intake bottleneck. It processes 100 emails every five minutes now.

Each delivery made the next one easier to trust. And critically, I never overpromised. If I didn't know how to do something, I said so. If a timeline was going to slip, I flagged it early. Trust isn't built by being perfect. It's built by being reliable and honest, including honest about limitations.

The second layer of trust, the personal layer, I build by listening and remembering. When a therapist tells me her workflow preference in February, and in April the software reflects that preference without her mentioning it again, that's not a feature. That's proof that she was heard.