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A case study with an overview of a team and a system architecture is provided to you in advance. You are asked for your thoughts on the team, potential issues/improvements for the system, and how you might interact with the team and other stakeholders.
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Zopa

3.3
Nov 6, 2023

A case study with an overview of a team and a system architecture is provided to you in advance. You are asked for your thoughts on the team, potential issues/improvements for the system, and how you might interact with the team and other stakeholders.

1. Why do you want to manage a team, it is very difficult managing people and its a stressed out job? 2. One microservice calls another microservice, the data from another microservice should be available in the calling microservice, how to go about it without caching the data?
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Zycus

3.6
Nov 22, 2022

1. Why do you want to manage a team, it is very difficult managing people and its a stressed out job? 2. One microservice calls another microservice, the data from another microservice should be available in the calling microservice, how to go about it without caching the data?

System Design: SQL vs. No-SQL databases, how to scale a database, UUID's, interaction between backend components, database sharding, etc. Coding: recursion, data structures, complexity, basic code optimization, etc. Cultural fit and managerial: dealing with low performers, managing style, description of my background, reasons to be a manager, etc.
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Jun 29, 2022

System Design: SQL vs. No-SQL databases, how to scale a database, UUID's, interaction between backend components, database sharding, etc. Coding: recursion, data structures, complexity, basic code optimization, etc. Cultural fit and managerial: dealing with low performers, managing style, description of my background, reasons to be a manager, etc.

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