Software Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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How do you handle stress and balancing multiple tasks at once? How do you keep up with current events/what news sources do you use? What would your current boss say your weakness is? What do you know about me (the interviewer)?
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Software Engineering Associate Manager

Interviewed at US Chamber of Commerce

4.2
Feb 3, 2022

How do you handle stress and balancing multiple tasks at once? How do you keep up with current events/what news sources do you use? What would your current boss say your weakness is? What do you know about me (the interviewer)?

No technical questions. What is a characteristic manager? What are the characteristic of a bad manager? Who was you best manager? Who was you work manager? Tell me about a time you failed. A lot more of this weirdness.... which IMHO gives no indication of how I can manage an engineering team.
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Stripe

3.7
Mar 2, 2018

No technical questions. What is a characteristic manager? What are the characteristic of a bad manager? Who was you best manager? Who was you work manager? Tell me about a time you failed. A lot more of this weirdness.... which IMHO gives no indication of how I can manage an engineering team.

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