Manager Interviews

Manager Interview Questions

During an interview for a manager position, employers may ask questions that test your communication, leadership, and team-building skills. Expect to answer questions that demonstrate your ability to motivate and direct staff members. As you answer questions, emphasize your ability to work well with others, delegate work, and handle challenging situations.

Manager Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: How do you measure success in the workplace?

How to answer
How to answer: This question allows the interviewer to understand how you set goals, lead employees, and evaluate success. Focus on the success of your work team in how you identify, plan for, and measure success on the job. If you have managerial experience, include examples of past success.
Question 2

Question #2: How would you handle terminating an employee?

How to answer
How to answer: This question tests your ability to handle a difficult managerial task professionally. Your answer should include the steps you would take before termination, including documentation and cooperation with human resources. If you have previous experience in this matter, describe the methods you used and what, if anything, you would change.
Question 3

Question #3: How do you deal with conflict between employees?

How to answer
How to answer: This question allows interviewers to test your ability to handle stress in the workplace, improve staff communication, deal with conflict, and build a cohesive team. Describe the methods you would use to resolve staff issues and include any examples of conflict resolution from your work history. Your answer should demonstrate your maturity and accountability as a manager.

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Behavioral based questions were easy to prepare for. Amazon prefers the STAR (situation, task, action, result) method to answer. Would suggestion preparing for the math flow question. I was asked the following: You have 30 associates who all work an 8 hour day, 5 days a week. 2 need to be in indirect (non-volume producing) roles. Your direct (production) rate is 150 units per hour, but you have two 15-minute breaks during the day. How many units can your department produce in a 40 hour week?
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Operations Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Aug 20, 2013

Behavioral based questions were easy to prepare for. Amazon prefers the STAR (situation, task, action, result) method to answer. Would suggestion preparing for the math flow question. I was asked the following: You have 30 associates who all work an 8 hour day, 5 days a week. 2 need to be in indirect (non-volume producing) roles. Your direct (production) rate is 150 units per hour, but you have two 15-minute breaks during the day. How many units can your department produce in a 40 hour week?

* Given an array of numbers. Create another array that contains * the product of all the members in the array except the current * element. For example, if you have an array of 3 elements such as: * * A[0] = 2 * A[1] = 4 * A[2] = 6 * * Then the resulting array will be * B[0] = 24 * B[1] = 12 * B[2] = 8 *
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Technical Account Manager

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Jan 11, 2011

* Given an array of numbers. Create another array that contains * the product of all the members in the array except the current * element. For example, if you have an array of 3 elements such as: * * A[0] = 2 * A[1] = 4 * A[2] = 6 * * Then the resulting array will be * B[0] = 24 * B[1] = 12 * B[2] = 8 *

You have 25 laborers for a shift. Pickers pick 100 units an hour Small item packers pack 150 units an hour Large item packers pack 25 units an hour You must pack 7500 small units during a ten hour shift. How would you staff your shift?
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Area Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Sep 17, 2009

You have 25 laborers for a shift. Pickers pick 100 units an hour Small item packers pack 150 units an hour Large item packers pack 25 units an hour You must pack 7500 small units during a ten hour shift. How would you staff your shift?

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