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Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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  • "(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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
  • Uber logoAsked at Uber 
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    Engineering Manager
    People Management
  • "Describe basics of web browser and http request. Then go into Google's search engine. For follow-up questions, talked about http vs https (encryption), sql vs nosql data store, s3 blob storage, encryption policies, retention policies."

    Faraz A. - "Describe basics of web browser and http request. Then go into Google's search engine. For follow-up questions, talked about http vs https (encryption), sql vs nosql data store, s3 blob storage, encryption policies, retention policies."See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
  • Coinbase logoAsked at Coinbase 
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    "· 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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Analytical
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    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
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  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 
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    "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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Technical
  • Engineering Manager
    Program Sense
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  • Atlassian logoAsked at Atlassian 
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    "asdsad"

    Develop games G. - "asdsad"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Product Design
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  • GitHub logoAsked at GitHub 
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    "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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
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    "· 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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Datadog logoAsked at Datadog 
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    "Reflect leadership quality in software engineering team"

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

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Wayfair logoAsked at Wayfair 
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    "Functional requirements: (a) location tracking (b) check-in at nearby place (c) view historical checkins with how much time user stayed there (d) Mark checkout when out of proximity (e) analytics - checkins by user at given loc, top n places Out of scope: (a) checkin sharing with followers Non functional: (a) low latency (b) high availability (c) eventual consistency Scale: (a) QPS: 10M DAU * 2 checkins /86400 seconds (b) Yearly Data Volume: 10M* 0.1 KB *365 days HLD: user -> location servic"

    Anonymous - "Functional requirements: (a) location tracking (b) check-in at nearby place (c) view historical checkins with how much time user stayed there (d) Mark checkout when out of proximity (e) analytics - checkins by user at given loc, top n places Out of scope: (a) checkin sharing with followers Non functional: (a) low latency (b) high availability (c) eventual consistency Scale: (a) QPS: 10M DAU * 2 checkins /86400 seconds (b) Yearly Data Volume: 10M* 0.1 KB *365 days HLD: user -> location servic"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
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    Engineering Manager
    System Design
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Coinbase logoAsked at Coinbase 
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    "I faced twice and it always slows down the career trajectory of engineers with complete context loss of previous hard earned projects"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
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    "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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Product Design
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "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"

    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

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
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    Engineering Manager
    Coding
  • "Hi my name is Sharon Alvis, I'm a person with a disability, I was wondering how to get a job. This is my first time to get a job so I'm just trying to know how to push myself out there and find job! "

    Sharon A. - "Hi my name is Sharon Alvis, I'm a person with a disability, I was wondering how to get a job. This is my first time to get a job so I'm just trying to know how to push myself out there and find job! "See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
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