Engineering Manager Behavioral Interview Questions

BePostive - "· How well the team is self-motivated and contributing overall success of the company by releasing high quality bug prone releases · Growth of their team members · Does the manager encouraging and supporting career switch based on the individual desire or passion"See full answer

MM4 - "Success can be measured in various forms, both quantitatively and qualitatively. How many projects were delivered on time? Is the team tracking well against timelines? How often do they need to be course corrected? How much of the architecture is scalable when features are built on top of their work? What is the technical quality of the work produced by the team? How often are engineers from the team looped in for advice, mentorship outside the team? How often & why are interp"See full answer

BePostive - "· Sometimes I have to step back and think through and respond later, not giving decision then and there · Manage between written vs oral communication, I tend to do mode of communication like oral during releases rather written"See full answer

Graig - "Reflect leadership quality in software engineering team"See full answer

Graig - "I faced twice and it always slows down the career trajectory of engineers with complete context loss of previous hard earned projects"See full answer

Neo S. - "I gave an example of a situation where on the project we needed to onboard 110 applications into the system to get their account and entitlement information for quarterly access review work stream. Traditionally we could have gone manual route and could have done it manually one by one which would have required more time and resources. I actually understood the applications and how they are built by talking to application owners and then based on the data bucketed them and found the pattern that"See full answer

Chung jin C. - "In my role as VP of operational model transformation was leading the definition of current and to be state of operations for a business representing >50% of the revenue & profits of the company. In a monthly feedback session, my manager shared how he noticed I had not delegated tasks and that I should work with 2 members who had been seconded to the team. We were working on a tight timeline and we wanted to get the targets completed earlier so that we can provide some buffer for further alignm"See full answer

Catherine I. - "In keeping with the STAR method, I discussed a mandated change in our vendors where we were swapping one contracting company for another with little time for transition. My actions included leveraging skills of my employees to develop a transition plan so that the transition was minimally disruptive to our projects."See full answer

Musa G. - "Depends on the kind of goals they are trying to pursue. I would clarify with the interviewer. . if you work for say a fintech, and are trying to create say a real-estate app with company resources - no go . if you want to write a book on management say while being an EM, then there's some wiggle room here. As long as you get the book approved by your IP team, should be ok . if you want to work on a hackathon project on something tangentially related to your team, still ok as long as the concept"See full answer

Sudhakar P. - "When talking about my role in current team, I talked following things: High level technologies used. Collaboration work I did with PM and Design counter parts. Web UX features that we built. Hiring and boot strapping team from 0. Given that there is straight match to the profile hiring manager was looking for, he got pretty excited and spent time selling the job."See full answer

Abhishek T. - "I explained about a project that was technically very challenging and had tight deadline. We were working on a new technology with new team members but delay was not an option. When we hit a road block due to lack of knowledge on Content Management System and Database, we came up with an idea of hard coded JSON data to help continue building the front end and user experience while team is figuring out to unblock the CMS and DB blocker. That way we would still move forward and show progress in IT"See full answer

Scott S. - "• Leadership and Team Management: • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. • Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and career development sessions with team members. • Facilitate effective communication and collaboration within the team and with other departments. • Project Management: • Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring they are completed on time, w"See full answer