Senior Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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Round 1: SDET Director It wend pretty well. Interviewer was knowledgeable and asked the questions around past projects and managerial skill Round 2: SDE Director Focus was on algorithmic questions. 1. Print tree in zigzag manner 2. in 2D-array if elements are in increasing order in Row and column then find the particular element Interviewer was calm and cool. I couldn't give the answer for questions as I was not prepared well I was happy with the interview experience till this point Round 3 : Sr SDET Manager Was asked mainly around the processes followed in my company and couple of random questions. In this round interviewer was talking more than me. Round 4 : Sr SDET Manager Interviewer had some questions and was expecting the same answers which he had in mind. I was expecting maturity level for person with such designation And as usual no feedback from HR team.
Nov 4, 2017

Round 1: SDET Director It wend pretty well. Interviewer was knowledgeable and asked the questions around past projects and managerial skill Round 2: SDE Director Focus was on algorithmic questions. 1. Print tree in zigzag manner 2. in 2D-array if elements are in increasing order in Row and column then find the particular element Interviewer was calm and cool. I couldn't give the answer for questions as I was not prepared well I was happy with the interview experience till this point Round 3 : Sr SDET Manager Was asked mainly around the processes followed in my company and couple of random questions. In this round interviewer was talking more than me. Round 4 : Sr SDET Manager Interviewer had some questions and was expecting the same answers which he had in mind. I was expecting maturity level for person with such designation And as usual no feedback from HR team.

Can you describe a time when your engineering team was falling behind on a project? How did you identify the issue, what steps did you take to address it, and how did you ensure that the team was motivated and on track moving forward?
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Sr Manager Software Engineering

Interviewed at SentinelOne

4.4
Sep 13, 2024

Can you describe a time when your engineering team was falling behind on a project? How did you identify the issue, what steps did you take to address it, and how did you ensure that the team was motivated and on track moving forward?

Based on my background they went into extensive detail on functional requirements of financial software that is was not expecting. I guess I told them somethings that they had not thought of. Can a product have bot lot# and serial #.
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Sage

3.6
Aug 2, 2012

Based on my background they went into extensive detail on functional requirements of financial software that is was not expecting. I guess I told them somethings that they had not thought of. Can a product have bot lot# and serial #.

How long had I been working in satellite communications? How long had you worked with Cisco switches? How long had you worked with satellite modems? Have you terminated CAT 5/6? Have you installed equipment into racks?
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Senior VSAT Engineer - Logistics Manager

Interviewed at Proactive Communications (Texas)

4.4
Sep 21, 2015

How long had I been working in satellite communications? How long had you worked with Cisco switches? How long had you worked with satellite modems? Have you terminated CAT 5/6? Have you installed equipment into racks?

What is tshirt size estimation in Agile They do not know the meaning of ADO , hence you have to specify Azure DevOps for them to know on the same . Why not use ECS instead of Lambda for APIs deployment . What architecture would you go for if you are work for a client which is really poor financially
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Quovantis Technologies

4
Oct 4, 2021

What is tshirt size estimation in Agile They do not know the meaning of ADO , hence you have to specify Azure DevOps for them to know on the same . Why not use ECS instead of Lambda for APIs deployment . What architecture would you go for if you are work for a client which is really poor financially

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