Interview 2: - given a scenario how do you decide weather a hack and publish or finish it the ideal way, what’s better? - how to keep engineers motivated even with some boring feature development - how do you ensure timely delivery - how’re you with people? - what challenges you’ve faces while leading a team
Describe a previous project manager you enjoyed working with.
Coding / System Design Question
I don't recall the specifics of the questions, but they were fairly typical, such as: how do I handle difficult circumstances; how do I juggle a variety of seemingly-conflicting priorities; how do I help under-performing engineers. I was surprised at how little I was asked about specific technical details, but on the other hand the interviews tipped the balance of questions toward my management approach/style.
How to maximize the exploitation of engineers
Program recursive factorial function.
Have you ever had to ask your team to work over hours? How did you approach that?
Soft skills and lots of questions about how I would "fix" issues the team was experiencing.
How do you manage your report's careers? Tell me about your current position, and previous position? What do you want to do next? Tell me about a time you had an under-performer, what did you do? Tell me about a time you had a had an under-performer that didn't improve, and you had to let them go. Tell me about the architecture of your current company? What would you do differently if you could?
What have you learned at XYZ?
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