If you had conflicting priorities with yourself, your customer, your team, your peers, and your project, how would you then prioritise them? (then he included extremes to how black and white the conflicts were like if you went ahead with a customer or team priority over yourself, you would lose your job. If there was a promotion opportunity, would you put yourself forward or someone in your team?)
Software Engineering Director Interview Questions
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You get a call from security at 2am about a massive security breach. What do you do?
Explain a time when you had to convince your team to do something they didn't agree with?
Q: How do you support your team?
PR Review The context for this simulation is the following: You are an engineering manager for a company that builds a marketplace app for healthcare facilities to hire healthcare workers. Your team owns the backend service responsible for worker shift management, among other things. The engineering team is working on a new feature that will allow healthcare facilities to rate and block workers. Please provide a PR review for your team member and a recommendation on how to move forward, depending on your review (e.g. approve the submission, request changes, callout merge blockers, etc.).
What would be the first thing you would do in this scenario?
Tell me about a time when you had to manage an underperforming team member?
How do you handle underperforming team members?
Describe a time when you had to align your engineering team with shifting product priorities.
How do you build a fair queueing system at scale?
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