Q: Experience leading large scale migrations and refactoring efforts.
Software Engineering Director Interview Questions
150 software engineering director interview questions shared by candidates
Each interviewer asked multiple scenario questions, the type you answer with the STAR method. There was really no "one question" or even a question that repeated from one person to the next.
How do you deal with staff turn-over during release cycle?
Many questions about experience leading digital initiatives, business engagement, measures of success, agile methodologies, and how I have worked with key business and product leads. Also a number of questions on team leadership, leadership style, and for examples of of dealing with challenging situations.
Describe how you lead teams, especially when they are faced with a challenging situation such as change in organization goals.
I was asked to describe my experiences, current trends in the industry/field, and explain for the layman (but with detail) my contribution when working in a team.
- 30 min technical screen High level discussion about python and engineering basics - 1 hr coding exercise easiest coding problem I've done, almost thought it was a joke tbh. First was, create a class that calculates the moving average of a list of numbers Second was, basic SQL statement Third was, something about modifying the words in the string to remove "ing" "ed" "ly" at end of some words - 1 hr deep technical discussion Pretty straightforward architectural design call with two of the engineers. If you know what a microservice you'll do fine lmao. - 30 min call with senior director just a cultural type interview call seeing who I am and why I wanted to work there. not great vibes with this guy tbh
Nothing was particularly difficult. The hiring manager asked about my management style etc but no technical questions per say.
Technical discussions about Cloud Security and general discussion around leadership style and traits.
A big chunk of the interview questions were focused on technical / software development. I got a wide range of questions including writing functions to solve algorithms on a whiteboard, explaining in depth how web/apis work and challenges/solutions for high scalability problems.
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