Management questions focused on past experience handling, planning, & prioritizing work, encouraging staff, and coaching. We discussed major overhauls of systems into new systems. And also, how to grow a current feature into its next phase. Also, how to plan that out.
Senior Software Engineering Manager Interview Questions
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I asked them about overtime as a salaried employee.
1. Tell me about a time a time you were working on a project you knew was going to fail and what you did about it. 2. Tell me about your favorite product or feature you've worked on and why. 3. Tell me about a time when a team member wasn't meeting expectations and how you handled it. 4. Let's design a Tiny URL system.
Asked about choices of libraries chosen for a project discussed, why one vs another - what were deciding factors?
Questions covered a variety of areas including topics such as experience leading teams, knowledge of agile methodologies, technical skills, development tools, communication and leadership skills, industry trends, and mentoring team members.
For tech, you will usually go through 3 rounds of interviews (phone, code test, and then for a senior role a final assignment followed by a presentation to a panel)
Tell me about challenges you faced in establishing process in any of your past projects
Why did they add default operations to Java 8?
Tell me about your most difficult project ? How do you handle conflicts ? Discuss your most successful engg project ? Talk about the migration to cloud ? Case study question about break even analysis?
Suppose you have an array of houses "-H-H-H", each house needs to be close to a water tank on either its left or right side. How many water tanks do you need? Water Tanks can only go where there is a dash. Given a list of constraints from the interviewer the task is to create a System Design for Uber in 30 minutes, after which there are follow up questions regarding scaling, data handling etc.
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