Engineering Manager Interview Questions

Ben G. - "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"See full answer

Kshitij A. - "The question is bit vague (I guess deliberately) so I believe firstly we shall ask questions and resolve ambiguity. Some initial questions could be : 1) Is this one time activity or something that should be done on continuous basis. If continuous basis then at what frequency. 2) How much staleness is acceptable in SYSTEM Y data 3) Are there any limitation in SYSTEM Y and is it fair to assume that we would need some kind of transformation to bring data into SYSTEM Y schema. 4) What kind of vol"See full answer

Rjj - "https://youtu.be/pHu6N3DTnCY?si=BkkVXZVUVRoE5cnt -> This is one video that I recorded for this question. Please go through and feel free to discuss further here or in the youtube comments"See full answer

LateArriver - "A mature manager. Great conversational answer. I wish more sessions with him"See full answer

Vikas T. - "Too much talk nothing concrete to know about the person that I am interviewing."See full answer

Avdhesh T. - "In one of my previous project, I was assigned a feature to implement before the deadline. After understanding the feature I started the design and implementation. I thought that it could be completed, but I could not do before the deadline. Due to this product delivery was delayed, I accepted my mistake that I started work without estimation. Later I asked other team member to help me on some tasks to complete. At the end I completed the feature after one week of the committed deadline."See full answer

Kanwarpreet S. - "Credibility is very important for success of any team. And it is something that takes time to build, but if i am inheriting a team that i did not build, i would spend dedicated time to understand team structure, dynamics and skill levels for every team member. Domain knowledge and experience are other important factors i would learn about each team member. In regular meetings i would introduce the culture of openness and respect where team members feel free to bring in ideas and constructive fee"See full answer

Amparo L. - "Some coworkers say to me that I'm a hard worker, but some say that I can be a little loud while I'm working, So then when I get that feedback I would say I'm sorry that you felt that way and I will promise I will work on it."See full answer

Yogi S. - "Might be good to have also explained how the engineer wasn't aware of th expedition process that you as a PM were able to identify when you spoke to the PM from the team that was providing the API, was it just a simple of case of not having access to information that you were able to help surface ?"See full answer

Anonymous Hare - "Some of the things I went though when I got a chance to work on this. Functional Requirements Scanning files and downloading the folders from the server which has the web site hosted. Scanning the folder structure and just capturing the files or downloading the files to some other location. What type of files will we see ? js css html modules sub modules json --- All the files we see on the web server. ... Non-Fun"See full answer

Nicholas S. - "First thing the interviewee did wrong is not asking clarifying questions. This is the most vague problem I have every heard, and the interviewee just made assumptions and started programming."See full answer

Kamal .. - "Designing a video streaming system like Netflix or Facebook Video involves addressing multiple aspects, such as scalability, availability, low latency, and high performance. Here's a high-level design: System Requirements Functional Requirements: User Management: User sign-up, login, and profile management. Subscription plans and payment integration (for Netflix-like systems). Content Management: Upload, edit, and delete videos. Categorize content (genres, recommendations). Video Playback: S"See full answer

Aymen D. - "It would have been more interesting to focus on the system design rather than the Trie DS, Interviewee could have just mentioned the Trie and passed to things more important. Interviewee should have focused on the factors on which he wants to scale the API servers, popularity of the query parts ? region may be ? A hash of many factors ? Caches should have definitely be discussed, Cache eviction policies, Cache invalidation managements... Interviewee should have mentioned which kind of API pro"See full answer

Imju B. - "Wondering what is the difference between OKR based and Roadmap based. I feel it is based on the time horizon."See full answer