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I don't recall the specifics of the questions, but they were fairly typical, such as: how do I handle difficult circumstances; how do I juggle a variety of seemingly-conflicting priorities; how do I help under-performing engineers. I was surprised at how little I was asked about specific technical details, but on the other hand the interviews tipped the balance of questions toward my management approach/style.
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at DigitalOcean

3.4★
Aug 18, 2020

I don't recall the specifics of the questions, but they were fairly typical, such as: how do I handle difficult circumstances; how do I juggle a variety of seemingly-conflicting priorities; how do I help under-performing engineers. I was surprised at how little I was asked about specific technical details, but on the other hand the interviews tipped the balance of questions toward my management approach/style.

How do you manage your report's careers? Tell me about your current position, and previous position? What do you want to do next? Tell me about a time you had an under-performer, what did you do? Tell me about a time you had a had an under-performer that didn't improve, and you had to let them go. Tell me about the architecture of your current company? What would you do differently if you could?
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Meta

3.6★
Feb 16, 2022

How do you manage your report's careers? Tell me about your current position, and previous position? What do you want to do next? Tell me about a time you had an under-performer, what did you do? Tell me about a time you had a had an under-performer that didn't improve, and you had to let them go. Tell me about the architecture of your current company? What would you do differently if you could?

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