Product Engineering Manager Interview Questions

40 product engineering manager interview questions shared by candidates

How do you set up a CI/ CD pipeline ? There are n number of ways you can set up a pipeline , even ChatGPT would know better + I have DevOps + SRE engineers who can do that , what a manager needs to understand is the basics of it and any impediments Code is quality analysis tools , I mentioned them about SonarCube not sure what bookish answers they were searching for . She never sounded like an Associate Director , the lady in particular , you search for experience and not tools ,
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Manager - Product Engineering

Interviewed at Wolters Kluwer

3.6
Jul 26, 2024

How do you set up a CI/ CD pipeline ? There are n number of ways you can set up a pipeline , even ChatGPT would know better + I have DevOps + SRE engineers who can do that , what a manager needs to understand is the basics of it and any impediments Code is quality analysis tools , I mentioned them about SonarCube not sure what bookish answers they were searching for . She never sounded like an Associate Director , the lady in particular , you search for experience and not tools ,

Questions across the below areas:  a) Cloud & Scalable Architecture (AWS, Kubernetes, Microservices)  b) Product Engineering & System Design  c) DevOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation  d) AI/ML & Data Engineering (For Automation & Personalization)  e) Web & Mobile Platform Engineering (React, Native, Flutter, PWA)
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Senior Director, Product Engineering

Interviewed at Sportz Interactive

3.2
Oct 18, 2025

Questions across the below areas:  a) Cloud & Scalable Architecture (AWS, Kubernetes, Microservices)  b) Product Engineering & System Design  c) DevOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation  d) AI/ML & Data Engineering (For Automation & Personalization)  e) Web & Mobile Platform Engineering (React, Native, Flutter, PWA)

I was surprised the hiring manager brought up the question of salary expectations during this first interview. I reiterated that I was interested at the advertised salary, as posted on the Automation Alley job board. He seemed surprised the salary had been publicly posted. His interest waned after.
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Product Development Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Neapco LLC

3.2
May 28, 2013

I was surprised the hiring manager brought up the question of salary expectations during this first interview. I reiterated that I was interested at the advertised salary, as posted on the Automation Alley job board. He seemed surprised the salary had been publicly posted. His interest waned after.

I was given a set of engineer coaching role play scenarios to talk through. I don't recall the exact scenarios - but they generally fell into the structure of "Imagine X situation on your team. What would you advise engineer Y?" or "I am an engineering manager struggling with X on my team, what advice would you give me?"
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Engineering Manager - Support Product

Interviewed at Wave

4.7
Sep 3, 2024

I was given a set of engineer coaching role play scenarios to talk through. I don't recall the exact scenarios - but they generally fell into the structure of "Imagine X situation on your team. What would you advise engineer Y?" or "I am an engineering manager struggling with X on my team, what advice would you give me?"

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