what is day to day engagement with the engineers
Senior Software Manager Interview Questions
350 senior software manager interview questions shared by candidates
Culture: What do you do in your free time?
Left right and center - hard tech skills, arch, design. soft skills, process, org, people mgmt.
What do you plan to change about the team?
Behavioral, Technical Coding, Remote programming test.
Questions where around leadership style, conflict resolution, team building, system design as well as successful and unsuccessful examples of driving technical innovation, managing projects or individuals within the team.
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.
The questions are almost entirely based around the Amazon leadership principles. Make sure you provide clear, detailed and complete answers. Do your background work as they won't explore your skills or capability in too much detail.
How would you handle a low performer?
Tell me about a time when you have built a team from scratch. Tell me about a time when you had to manage someone out of the company. Tell me about a time you made a strategic decision that had a large impact on the company.
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