Product Engineering Manager Interview Questions

30 product engineering manager interview questions shared by candidates

I was surprised the hiring manager brought up the question of salary expectations during this first interview. I reiterated that I was interested at the advertised salary, as posted on the Automation Alley job board. He seemed surprised the salary had been publicly posted. His interest waned after.
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Product Development Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Neapco LLC

3.2
May 28, 2013

I was surprised the hiring manager brought up the question of salary expectations during this first interview. I reiterated that I was interested at the advertised salary, as posted on the Automation Alley job board. He seemed surprised the salary had been publicly posted. His interest waned after.

I was given a set of engineer coaching role play scenarios to talk through. I don't recall the exact scenarios - but they generally fell into the structure of "Imagine X situation on your team. What would you advise engineer Y?" or "I am an engineering manager struggling with X on my team, what advice would you give me?"
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Engineering Manager - Support Product

Interviewed at Wave

4.7
Sep 3, 2024

I was given a set of engineer coaching role play scenarios to talk through. I don't recall the exact scenarios - but they generally fell into the structure of "Imagine X situation on your team. What would you advise engineer Y?" or "I am an engineering manager struggling with X on my team, what advice would you give me?"

During the phone interview, simple filter questions with RC and op amps were asked. These went fairly well. Then the questions started getting harder and eventually two op amps were put together in a certain configuration and then I was asked what the effect was, turned out it was a gyrator(effectively an inductance).
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Product Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Silicon Labs

4.1
Feb 26, 2013

During the phone interview, simple filter questions with RC and op amps were asked. These went fairly well. Then the questions started getting harder and eventually two op amps were put together in a certain configuration and then I was asked what the effect was, turned out it was a gyrator(effectively an inductance).

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