Engineering Manager Interview Questions
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1. Generate all possible words from telephone numeric key pad mapping to alphabets for an arbitrary length of digits.
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use n-array tree
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backtracking: choose the first alph traverse the next key unchoose
Behavioral mostly. Few technical system design related
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I had answers of all.
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Technical and Management
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Standard
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Through questions like this, interviewers are mostly trying to test your skillset (and its relevance to the role) as robustly as possible, so be prepared for multiple offshoots and followups. It could be a useful exercise to do mocks with friends or colleagues in Cruise to get a real sense of what the interview is actually like. Alternatively Prepfully has a ton of Cruise Software Engineering Manager experts who provide mock interviews for a pretty reasonable amount. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
What will you do if the client asked for more features and you are already behind schedule
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If they ask for more features beyond what's in the agreed upon contract SOW and requirements, then you'll have to renegotiate the project cost and schedule. As for you being currently behind schedule, you always have to manage your customer/stakeholder expectations. They should know you are behind schedule, what your doing to get back on track, or why getting back on track is not possible. Less
Some of the Key Questions in Round 1: HR Round 1. Tell me about yourself and your past experience. I think they were just checking communication skills. Also depth of experience 2. What am i looking in my next role? 3. Salary expectations
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What ever applies to your situation, just explain it.
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The key in generic questions like this, is to make sure to cover the fundamentals. There's usually a back-and-forth with the interviewer. Might be worth doing a mock interview with one of the Spotify Software Engineering Manager experts on Prepfully? Really helps to get some real-world practice and guidance. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
Do you need to feel valued for the work you've done?
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Nuanced answer - day to day then not at all, and I don't exactly have a monstrous ego that needs constant fuelling, however I wouldn't wish to work in an environment where nobody is appreciated, and like any human then the odd bit of recognition is always nice. In some cases, I'd actively pass the credit on to others, as it may be important in their development, so I'd be happy in myself, simply knowing I'd done the right thing, and seeing the business improve. Oh, sorry, it seems I can't actually explain my answer, I need to pick a number from 1-10. Um, 6? Less
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Through questions like this, interviewers are mostly trying to test your skillset (and its relevance to the role) as robustly as possible, so be prepared for multiple offshoots and followups. It could be a useful exercise to do mocks with friends or colleagues in Spotify to get a real sense of what the interview is actually like. Alternatively Prepfully has a ton of Spotify Engineering Manager experts who provide mock interviews for a pretty reasonable amount. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
How do you approach mentoring?
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I didn't have a solid answer here, and it tripped me up a little bit. It's a subject which is a little weak for me, so I relied on anecdotes from some of my first jobs where I was pseudo-responsible for junior developers. Less
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Set expectations about how mentoring will work, frequency of meetings and general rules of engagement Work with the mentee (and possibly their manager) on any high level goals that we should work on during the mentoring relationship Lets the mentee drive the conversations but keep the general goals in mind Give them feedback and guidance, but avoid telling them what to do. Be accountable for the things you commit to with the mentor. Hold the mentor accountable for the things they commit to. Less
Have you had to terminate someone?
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No
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In these sorts of interviews you really need to drill down and understand what the interviewer is looking for. A good way to simulate a real interview experience is to do a mock with one of the Stack Overflow Engineering Manager experts on Prepfully, rated super strongly on TrustPilot... prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
See my explanation above about their negligence of treating candidates
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Thank-you for taking time to share your experience. While it is not what we are used to hearing, we would certainly like to understand more of what occurred. Should you be interested, I would be happy to spend time with you to learn more. In either case, we are sorry that your personal interactions did not meet our normally high standard of care. Less
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Stephen Wells, If I give out the details, I may be blacklisted forever. The process is extremely slow. The recruiter is not transparent and the hiring manager did not know how to handle the situation. All I can say is, candidate experience is equally important for a company to attract the right talent. Not only should Myriad promote people within the organization, but strive to bring in people from different industry background to give a fresh perspective on process, culture, experience, diversity and more to have a holistic understanding of running a team and business. If you want to hire the best and right talent, pay more and do not be stingy like the company is right now. If you want talent to be stellar, then you pay them stellar salary too. Less
hard problems
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technical questions on scenarios you're given on the spot
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It's essential to demonstrate that you can really go deep... there are plenty of followup questions and (sometimes tangential) angles to explore. There's a lot of Engineering Manager experts who've worked at Skyscanner, who provide this sort of practice through mock interviews. There's a whole list of them curated on Prepfully. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less