Engineering Manager Interview Questions

Catherine I. - "I always ask to clarify if this is a brand new team. If so, then I focus on bringing in people with strong technical aptitudes(since I'm hiring for software engineering), but also team members that have experience mentoring and good communication is a must. I look for people who have leadership qualities. I emphasize that building a brand new team isn't something I can do on my own, so the initial hires of that team are very important to help me expand it."See full answer

shg - "In my experience, project success translates to three things: Customer Success => Quality increments to service leading to customer success. (Measure by KPIs like customer satisfaction score, SLA, Revenue growth etc) Team Success => High Team morale with successful execution and collaboration of project. Individual Success => Individual career goals and aspirations are met I think the later two are difficult are measured via KPIs. Although there can be indirect KPIs to measure those as we"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

Emilio T. - "I did a design similar to one of the videos you have about designing youtube, but feedback said that I failed on discussions on key details of the design, also failed on the gathering requirements phase."See full answer

shg - "(This was not search autocomplete based on prefix matching question.) First of all, please note :- The interviewer is not expecting you to get to the right answer in just 1 hr. These systems have been designed over months and improved over years and its impractical for anyone to expect you to get to the right answer in 1 hr. (There is no one single right answer). At the end, the interviewer (director level person) told me the same. What they are looking for is your thought process, getting from"See full answer

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

Musonda C. - "Imagine you have a friend from France that speaks French, and you only speak English. You and your friend want to play a talking game. So, for your friend to understand you and for you to understand what your friend is saying you would need an API between the two of you. The api has its own language called api language. You and your friend will both get a small book that tells you how to speak api language. The api in between you and your friend would allow both of you to speak API language to"See full answer

Develop games G. - "asdsad"See full answer

Graig - "Reflect leadership quality in software engineering team"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

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

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

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

gdecuri - "Load Balancer to multiple API Servers, pub sub system to publish user events, Game Engine Service, Write through cache and NoSQL DB. HTTP Long Polling to get user status updates"See full answer