Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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Tell me about a time when you had to communicate a change in direction that you anticipated people would have concerns with. What did you do to understand the concerns and mitigate them? Were there any changes you made along the way after hearing these concerns? How did you handle questions and/or resistance? Were you able to get people comfortable with the change?
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Engineering Project Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 4, 2025

Tell me about a time when you had to communicate a change in direction that you anticipated people would have concerns with. What did you do to understand the concerns and mitigate them? Were there any changes you made along the way after hearing these concerns? How did you handle questions and/or resistance? Were you able to get people comfortable with the change?

Mix of Technical Scenario, targeted behavioral / situational questions and some conversational styles across rounds; E.g. Describe a process from first principles for creating an environment platform in AWS that allows Developers to auto create/provision Dev Environment which can then initiate integration to CI/CD workflow. Tell me about a time when you had to change from an initial approach in addressing a challenge with a stakeholder. Are you more process oriented or technical - Do you gravitate towards architectural solutioning / theory or do you prefer dealing with with situations tactically, why... Describe most significant organisational impacting change you introduced in the last 12 months in current role.
Aug 9, 2020

Mix of Technical Scenario, targeted behavioral / situational questions and some conversational styles across rounds; E.g. Describe a process from first principles for creating an environment platform in AWS that allows Developers to auto create/provision Dev Environment which can then initiate integration to CI/CD workflow. Tell me about a time when you had to change from an initial approach in addressing a challenge with a stakeholder. Are you more process oriented or technical - Do you gravitate towards architectural solutioning / theory or do you prefer dealing with with situations tactically, why... Describe most significant organisational impacting change you introduced in the last 12 months in current role.

It was a interview with the engineering manager. He asked about typical management questions and the discussion was very fruitful and positive. But after the interview the talent aquisition team mentioned they are looking for SW background. This was a complete shock as there was no question around that.
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Autodesk

4
Apr 11, 2019

It was a interview with the engineering manager. He asked about typical management questions and the discussion was very fruitful and positive. But after the interview the talent aquisition team mentioned they are looking for SW background. This was a complete shock as there was no question around that.

What was most unexpected for me were the lack of technical questions. Granted that it was a group management position but one of the key elements of that position, in my opinion, is technical understanding. Then heavy hand of the script didn't seem to allow for those types of questions.
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at General Motors (GM)

3.5
Feb 9, 2013

What was most unexpected for me were the lack of technical questions. Granted that it was a group management position but one of the key elements of that position, in my opinion, is technical understanding. Then heavy hand of the script didn't seem to allow for those types of questions.

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