Software Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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1st Interview Started with intros Had a few behavioural questions e.g tell me the most challenging thing you've done recently Code task was about traversing a 2D array in a spiral pattern. 2nd Interview Mostly behavioural around management Code task was about checking for duplicates in an array 3rd Interview Behavioural - tell me about a time... Code task was to identify 5 in an input string and replace it with 2 numbers that would add upto the original e.g 153, soln is 143+10. 4th Interview Started with behavioural questions Code task: Picture the old phones, letters were mapped to numbers e.g 1 = ABC, 2=DEF etc. So you're given an input number e.g 21 and you're supposed to print all possible combinations. Follow up on this were: Calculate runtime complexity Runtime complexity when we add a dictionary check
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Mar 29, 2021

1st Interview Started with intros Had a few behavioural questions e.g tell me the most challenging thing you've done recently Code task was about traversing a 2D array in a spiral pattern. 2nd Interview Mostly behavioural around management Code task was about checking for duplicates in an array 3rd Interview Behavioural - tell me about a time... Code task was to identify 5 in an input string and replace it with 2 numbers that would add upto the original e.g 153, soln is 143+10. 4th Interview Started with behavioural questions Code task: Picture the old phones, letters were mapped to numbers e.g 1 = ABC, 2=DEF etc. So you're given an input number e.g 21 and you're supposed to print all possible combinations. Follow up on this were: Calculate runtime complexity Runtime complexity when we add a dictionary check

1) Technical and Management Round - Focussed more on technical things in general. 2) Technical and In General Round - Focussed on my current and past roles. Why did I make the decision that I did etc. 3) Management Round - 2 Folks interviewed me on how did I manage resources. Gave a real world example to check my response. 4) Onsite Round - Onsite manager in general asked me about my last roles. How do I handle people and projects and deadlines.
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Wells Fargo

3.5
Sep 5, 2021

1) Technical and Management Round - Focussed more on technical things in general. 2) Technical and In General Round - Focussed on my current and past roles. Why did I make the decision that I did etc. 3) Management Round - 2 Folks interviewed me on how did I manage resources. Gave a real world example to check my response. 4) Onsite Round - Onsite manager in general asked me about my last roles. How do I handle people and projects and deadlines.

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