Software Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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- Classic leadership interview question you can find on Google with the answers. You can just memorize the answers and you'll be fine. - A system design question which could be understood in different ways (I answered as I read in a very famous book and from my practical experience), but the author of the question wanted something else without explaining too much.
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Spark Networks

3.6
Oct 18, 2022

- Classic leadership interview question you can find on Google with the answers. You can just memorize the answers and you'll be fine. - A system design question which could be understood in different ways (I answered as I read in a very famous book and from my practical experience), but the author of the question wanted something else without explaining too much.

If you had conflicting priorities with yourself, your customer, your team, your peers, and your project, how would you then prioritise them? (then he included extremes to how black and white the conflicts were like if you went ahead with a customer or team priority over yourself, you would lose your job. If there was a promotion opportunity, would you put yourself forward or someone in your team?)
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at BT Group

3.7
Nov 7, 2023

If you had conflicting priorities with yourself, your customer, your team, your peers, and your project, how would you then prioritise them? (then he included extremes to how black and white the conflicts were like if you went ahead with a customer or team priority over yourself, you would lose your job. If there was a promotion opportunity, would you put yourself forward or someone in your team?)

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