Software Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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What is something you thought was a strength but later realized was a weakness? What is something somebody showed you that you adopted and extended or improved upon? Tell us about when you had a to let an employee go.
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Software Engineering Senior Manager

Interviewed at PEAK6

3
Sep 8, 2022

What is something you thought was a strength but later realized was a weakness? What is something somebody showed you that you adopted and extended or improved upon? Tell us about when you had a to let an employee go.

series of 4 questions on hackerrank. First 3 can be answered in any supported hackerrank language, the last can be done in React, Angular, or vanilla JS. I recommend saving your work locally as glitches caused it be lost more than once and this is a timed test.
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Tulip Interfaces

3.7
May 26, 2020

series of 4 questions on hackerrank. First 3 can be answered in any supported hackerrank language, the last can be done in React, Angular, or vanilla JS. I recommend saving your work locally as glitches caused it be lost more than once and this is a timed test.

Subjects of the middle six hours of interviews were around leadership/management focused conversations, technical design discussions (theoretical higher level problem, no coding), and then a technical deep dive on something you've worked on or built.
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Figma

3.5
Aug 2, 2023

Subjects of the middle six hours of interviews were around leadership/management focused conversations, technical design discussions (theoretical higher level problem, no coding), and then a technical deep dive on something you've worked on or built.

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