Leadership: How do you keep your engineers motivated?
Senior Software Development Manager Interview Questions
65 senior software development manager interview questions shared by candidates
Give an example of how you encouraged innovation.
Classic questions about how would you manage people, teams, projects and risk in the context of developing a large software solution. Some classic questions such as describing a situation where you contributed positively to the success of the team and one situation in which things didn't go as expected and how you reacted. Some generic questions about cloud technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes and pitfalls in designing cloud native solutions.
What have you done so far in development (really - is this how you begin your introduction)
Overall interview process was more of a discussion.
Maybe because all the interviewers are in oversea, I attended all these remote interviews. In the first round test, I was asked about some algorithm questions. In the second round, I was ask to analyze a system requirement. And the last round was done by my current manager. She asked me open questions about the team management skills and communication skills.
Have you ever had a problem where you have had a team member who needed to be disciplined or fired?
Have you ever been a manager before?
How to design a storage system
Going back to think about how I might have done something different with the difficult-to-manage developer. Totally reasonable interview question (I've asked similar Q's myself). Thinking for a moment or two before answering would definitely have helped me.
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