Engineering Management Interview Prep

Land your dream engineering manager role at Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, and other top companies. Learn from mock interviews, frameworks, and advice from senior candidates. Explore system design, people management, project retros, behavioral interviews, and more.

Taught by 10+ Engineering Leaders at Amazon, Meta, and more

Jacob SimonSoftware Engineer, Dropbox, Exponent Co-founder

Hozefa JodiawallaEngineering Manager, Meta, Maven Clinic

Neeraj GuptaEngineering Manager, eBay

Timothy LuongEngineering Manager, Scale AI

S.V.Engineering Leader, Apple

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5 courses

29 hours

Engineering Management Introduction

6 lessons

2 videos

Here's our overview of how to tackle the engineering manager interview.

Welcome to Exponent's EM Course!Free

What is Engineering Management?

Transitioning from IC to Manager

The EM Interview Loop

Engineering Management Glossary

People Management Questions

5 modules

21 lessons

8 videos

Here's how to answer questions about people management in engineering manager interviews.

An Introduction to People ManagementFree

Creating Your EM Story Bank

Managing Individuals

Practice: Running 1:1s

Leadership Style

Build Credibility with Reports

Performance Management

Handling Poor Performers

High Performing and Low Performing Teams

Layoff Communication

Managing Team Execution

Practice: Setting Up Projects for Success

Practice: Balancing Feature Development and Technical Debt

Measuring Impact as an Engineering Manager

Practice: Creating Quarterly Team OKRs

Goal Setting

Cross-functional Collaboration

Practice: Resolving Conflicts Between Engineer and Cross-functional Partner

Practice: Balancing Engineering Limitations with Customer Requirements

Practice: Explaining Engineering Concepts to Non-technical Team Members

Practice: Driving Alignment in Cross-functional Projects

Project Retrospective Questions

6 lessons

2 videos

Here's how to answer project retrospective questions in engineering manager interviews.

Introduction to Project Retrospective QuestionsFree

Brainstorming Project Retrospective Ideas

Creating Your Project Retrospective

Practice: Rehearse Your Story

Project Retrospective Example

System Design Interviews

10 modules

53 lessons

35 videos

Learn how to answer system design questions with in-depth video examples and lessons that teach the fundamental concepts of scalable systems. Put your knowledge to the test with our self-guided exercises, or watch how engineers and managers answer these questions themselves.

Introduction to the System Design InterviewFree

How to Answer System Design Interview Questions

System Design Principles

Rubric for System Design Interviews

System Design Glossary

Top Engineering Blogs

Web Protocol Questions

Asynchronous Processing

Caching

Encryption

Authentication and Authorization

Design Facebook MessengerFree

Design an AI-Powered Customer Support System

Design a Web Crawler

Design a Metrics and Logging Service

Design Dropbox

Design App that Downloads User Data

Design an Application Performance Monitoring System

Design a Parking Garage

Design the Payment System for the Amazon Kindle

Design a Hotel Booking Service

Design Zillow

Design a Vending Machine

Design Ticketmaster

Design a Key Value Store

Design a Rate Limiter

Design a Distributed Message Queue

Design a URL Shortener

Design Typeahead for Search Box

Design a Distributed LRU Cache

Behavioral Interviews: A Practical Guide for Engineers

5 modules

28 lessons

19 videos

10 hours

Get offers at the level you deserve. Prep for senior+ behavioral interviews at FAANG and Tier-1 companies. Made with staff and principal engineers from Meta, Netflix, Google, and more. Avoid downleveling, elevate past projects, and stop sounding like a robot.

Welcome to Behavioral Interviewing for EngineersFree

Introduction to Engineering Behavioral InterviewsFree

Avoiding Downleveling

Approaching the 3 Question Types

Elevating Your Past Projects

Habits of High-Performing Candidates

Be Seen as a Senior Engineer (Part 1: Mock Interview)

Be Seen as a Senior Engineer (Part 2: Analysis)

Why Engineers Fail Interviews

The Question Beneath the Question

Measuring Culture Fit

Demonstrating Impact

Introducing Yourself: Do's and Don'ts

"Why Our Company?"

Prevent Instant Rejection

Know the Rules So You Can Break ThemFree

Types of Interviewers

Sharing the Optimal Level of Detail

Stop Sounding Like a RobotFree

Reversing a Downlevel OfferFree

Be Seen as a Staff+ Engineer (Part 1)

Be Seen as a Staff+ Engineer (Part 2: Analysis)

Do You Meet the Senior+ Bar? (Part 1)

Do You Meet the Senior+ Bar? (Part 2: Analysis)

Meta Onsite Behavioral RoundNew

Demonstrating Ownership (Part 1)

Demonstrating Ownership (Part 2: Analysis)

Practice Behavioral Interviews

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Access all our company interview guides We'll walk you step-by-step through every part of the interview process, from the recruiting phone screen through the final round.

Join our members-only Slack community Connect with your peers in our 25,000-member strong Slack community. Ask questions, practice interviews, and make connections at top tech companies.

Mock interviews with AI and peers Practice real interview questions with unlimited mock interviews, including early access to our new AI interviewer.

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A complete library of company-specific PM interview guides

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