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Management experience Describe the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly habits you expect a well-run software engineering team to have, both as a team and individually. Describe your experience of different development methodologies, and your preferred approach - if that would vary based on circumstance, please describe that range, too. Outline your thoughts on leadership in the context of software development. What helps teams align around a particular mission, approach, or practice? In large projects that span multiple teams working on integrated or related or complementary components, what are the important practices? Outline your thoughts on the relationship between product management and engineering. Outline your thoughts on quality in software development. What practices are most effective in software teams to drive improvements in quality? Outline your thoughts on performance in software engineering. How do you ensure that your teams code is fast? Can you describe hard learnings in this regard? Outline your thoughts on security in software engineering. What is the relationship between your engineering team and the security team? How do you lead your engineers to improve their security posture and awareness? Outline your thoughts on devops and devsecops. Which practices are effective, and which are overrated? Context Outline your thoughts on the mission of Canonical. What is it about the company's purpose and goals which is most appealing to you? What is risky or unappealing? Are there any elements of the company goals that you are unsure about? Who are competitors to Canonical, and what does Canonical need to change to be a more effective competitor? Which current dynamics in the cloud software industry are favourable to Canonical? Which are unfavourable? What is important in the internet of things? What sort of software development approaches and capabilities are important for IoT? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which Canonical products and services would you most like to work on?
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Canonical

3.2★
Nov 19, 2021

Management experience Describe the daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly habits you expect a well-run software engineering team to have, both as a team and individually. Describe your experience of different development methodologies, and your preferred approach - if that would vary based on circumstance, please describe that range, too. Outline your thoughts on leadership in the context of software development. What helps teams align around a particular mission, approach, or practice? In large projects that span multiple teams working on integrated or related or complementary components, what are the important practices? Outline your thoughts on the relationship between product management and engineering. Outline your thoughts on quality in software development. What practices are most effective in software teams to drive improvements in quality? Outline your thoughts on performance in software engineering. How do you ensure that your teams code is fast? Can you describe hard learnings in this regard? Outline your thoughts on security in software engineering. What is the relationship between your engineering team and the security team? How do you lead your engineers to improve their security posture and awareness? Outline your thoughts on devops and devsecops. Which practices are effective, and which are overrated? Context Outline your thoughts on the mission of Canonical. What is it about the company's purpose and goals which is most appealing to you? What is risky or unappealing? Are there any elements of the company goals that you are unsure about? Who are competitors to Canonical, and what does Canonical need to change to be a more effective competitor? Which current dynamics in the cloud software industry are favourable to Canonical? Which are unfavourable? What is important in the internet of things? What sort of software development approaches and capabilities are important for IoT? Why do you most want to work for Canonical? Which Canonical products and services would you most like to work on?

- Drill down to the high and low level parts of a complex architecture you were part of or lead - Find gaps and solve them together in an existing architecture shown and related to the company - Building a system while adding complex part along the way and finding the best way to tackle it and possible trade-offs - Management and personal questions on the past and current experience
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Forter

4.1★
Mar 7, 2024

- Drill down to the high and low level parts of a complex architecture you were part of or lead - Find gaps and solve them together in an existing architecture shown and related to the company - Building a system while adding complex part along the way and finding the best way to tackle it and possible trade-offs - Management and personal questions on the past and current experience

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