How do you manage high performers?

"I interviewed for an M1 Engineering Manager role, and the process included a screening round first, followed by the main loop. The screening consisted of one broad behavioral interview and one system design interview, in which I could choose between machine learning systems, software systems, and products; I chose machine learning. In the main loop, I had another ML system design round, a project deep dive, a team management interview, another behavioral round, and an AI-assisted coding interview. The AI-assisted coding piece was the newest part of the process for me, but the bigger surprise was how behaviorally heavy the EM loop was. My main takeaway is that they expect you to provide depth on your own, even if the interviewer isn't especially good at eliciting it."

"I first cleared the loop for a different Meta EM role and, while I was waiting in team matching, they opened an M1 security role and asked me to do the delta interviews for that. For the security path, the structure was recruiter screen, two technical screens, and then a six-round final loop covering security system design, security depth, coding, career motivation, people management, and project retrospective. The technical rounds were not the hardest part for me because the coding was pretty easy and the design rounds were very framework-driven. The rounds that mattered most were people management and project retrospective, and I actually got more push there because the examples had to map cleanly to the signal. I cleared the loop, and am waiting on next steps."

"I originally applied for a different Netflix role, got rejected at the application stage, and then about two weeks later a recruiter reached out to me about this EM opening on the tooling side. Honestly, it was way easier than I expected because almost all of it was based on my actual experience instead of abstract or super theoretical questions. I had around 10 discussions if you count the recruiter bookends, with manager screens, behavioral rounds, one system design, a final block, and lunch with the team. The only round that really threw me was system design because they gave me no drawing tool and then got unexpectedly deep on recommendation signals like hover-over behavior. I got the offer, but I ended up going with a different company."