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The questions were largely centered around the role and aptitudes. Questions included how do you manage larger teams where it may be difficult to gauge details? How do you build bridges between engineering and other professions like product? How do you manage a remote workforce... and so on. Nothing out of the ordinary.
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Unilink software

3.8★
Apr 24, 2025

The questions were largely centered around the role and aptitudes. Questions included how do you manage larger teams where it may be difficult to gauge details? How do you build bridges between engineering and other professions like product? How do you manage a remote workforce... and so on. Nothing out of the ordinary.

First of all, the interviewer always introduced in brief and then started asking questions. Mostly they talked about real time scenarios/situations in Project and day to day job and asked how did i handle or would handle. They talked about challenges i faced in my career and how did i overcome the same? How i motivate team? etc Some discussion about Salesforce Data model as i come from SFDC background. Overall, I am really thankful and equally impressed with the way entire process went through. It was well planned and really smooth.
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Salesforce

4★
Jul 1, 2019

First of all, the interviewer always introduced in brief and then started asking questions. Mostly they talked about real time scenarios/situations in Project and day to day job and asked how did i handle or would handle. They talked about challenges i faced in my career and how did i overcome the same? How i motivate team? etc Some discussion about Salesforce Data model as i come from SFDC background. Overall, I am really thankful and equally impressed with the way entire process went through. It was well planned and really smooth.

The first round was a very pleasant experience with the hiring manager. asked a simple question based on array. Second round was postponed several times as the Principal wasn't available. Not sure why they schedule when the principal is uncertain. On the day of the interview the principal joins in 15 minutes late, only after calling HR after 10 minutes (even HR won't pick phone) Finally on to the question, it was a simple app but the constraint given was it should be cost effective. Expecting 1M requests per day. I was able to provide 2 solutions - aggressively cost effective, and moderately cost effective with better availability. During the process I clearly mentioned I'm ruling out using Lamda as its got 1M as free tier which we would exhaust in a day as you are expecting 1M per day traffic. At the end of the interview the Principal insists I should have used Lambda and goes on to praise lambda usage. This was my feeling after the interview: 1. There are maybe few incompetent people who don't even understand English and struggle to communicate. I wonder how they get in, in the first place. 2. They just bluff any random (1M) number when you try and clarify for traffic requirements, but don't remember it later on
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at NIKE

3.9★
Nov 13, 2025

The first round was a very pleasant experience with the hiring manager. asked a simple question based on array. Second round was postponed several times as the Principal wasn't available. Not sure why they schedule when the principal is uncertain. On the day of the interview the principal joins in 15 minutes late, only after calling HR after 10 minutes (even HR won't pick phone) Finally on to the question, it was a simple app but the constraint given was it should be cost effective. Expecting 1M requests per day. I was able to provide 2 solutions - aggressively cost effective, and moderately cost effective with better availability. During the process I clearly mentioned I'm ruling out using Lamda as its got 1M as free tier which we would exhaust in a day as you are expecting 1M per day traffic. At the end of the interview the Principal insists I should have used Lambda and goes on to praise lambda usage. This was my feeling after the interview: 1. There are maybe few incompetent people who don't even understand English and struggle to communicate. I wonder how they get in, in the first place. 2. They just bluff any random (1M) number when you try and clarify for traffic requirements, but don't remember it later on

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