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"When hiring a technical manager, an employer will look for candidates with the management skills and industry knowledge to oversee company projects that require members to have large amounts of technical knowledge, usually in the form of programming and software development. Some of the interview questions you may be asked will target your management experience and philosophy while others will focus on your understanding of the technical processes you will be working with in the project."

Top Technical Manager Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Have you ever dealt with staff members who were resistant to new technology or technological processes? How did you handle the situation?

How to answer
How to answer: A technical manager often introduces and rolls out new technology products and processes to an organization's staff members, so it's important to know how to do so in a positive way. When answering this question, try to think about a specific situation in which you dealt with resistant staff and how you interacted with those individuals in a positive way. As you describe the situation, use the STAR method: Situation, Task, Action, Result. This question allows you to describe your problem-solving and communication skills.
Question 2

Question #2: Describe your process for researching and implementing new technology.

How to answer
How to answer: When answering a question about your process, consider a specific situation in which you researched and/or implemented a new technology in a previous role. Describe the steps you took and why you took each step, as well as the outcome of your research and rollout processes.
Question 3

Question #3: How did the last company you worked for benefit from your technical expertise?

How to answer
How to answer: Answering a question about your technical expertise allows you to elaborate on your technical skills and strengths and how they benefited those around you in your previous role. Describe specific situations that highlight the importance of your work, such as new technologies that you implemented or rolled out that led to significant improvements or positive results.

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• Tell me about yourself/Introduce yourself/what were you doing recently • How much technical you are? / How much technical work were you doing in your previous job? • Tell me about a difficult problem you faced and how you came out of it?
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Technical Account Manager

Interviewed at Kablamo

3.5★
Apr 4, 2024

• Tell me about yourself/Introduce yourself/what were you doing recently • How much technical you are? / How much technical work were you doing in your previous job? • Tell me about a difficult problem you faced and how you came out of it?

You join Amazon Delivery Experience org that supports a service responsible for vending delivery options across the retail website. The service has a set of hard coded rules in Java and every time that the Product Managers would like to modify those rules, the come to the Developers and ask to change code to implement new rules or changes to the existing ones. To reduce the time it take the Developers to implement changes, your Director asks you to re-design the service such that the Developers don't need to be involved at least when changes are being made to the existing rules. The new system has to remain highly available and salable to support calls from the client services which rely on the output of this service, just like the old system. Assume you have 5 Engineers on a team available to do the work, and your Scrum iterations are a month long. 1) What Questions would you ask? What other information do you need? State all assumptions you make about answers to these questions 2) Please describe key components of the system that you would propose, assuming no external solutions can be purchased. 3) How would the original design change if you were told that traffic to your service is going to grow 50% yr over yr. 4) Would would you potentially try to deliver in the first Sprint? 2nd Sprint? 5) Let's suppose that your director would review the estimates of effort and time it would take to deliver the new system, and wasn't pleased with it as it would take 6 months to build. Instead, he would propose to extract the business rules into the configuration file and deploy it to the 5 client services that consume the output. a) How would you respond to this request? b) Imagine that your team was resisting this approach and only wanted to go froward with the best possible. What would you tell them and how would you reconcile the disagreement between your team's opinion and the director?
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Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon Lab126

3.2★
Apr 11, 2016

You join Amazon Delivery Experience org that supports a service responsible for vending delivery options across the retail website. The service has a set of hard coded rules in Java and every time that the Product Managers would like to modify those rules, the come to the Developers and ask to change code to implement new rules or changes to the existing ones. To reduce the time it take the Developers to implement changes, your Director asks you to re-design the service such that the Developers don't need to be involved at least when changes are being made to the existing rules. The new system has to remain highly available and salable to support calls from the client services which rely on the output of this service, just like the old system. Assume you have 5 Engineers on a team available to do the work, and your Scrum iterations are a month long. 1) What Questions would you ask? What other information do you need? State all assumptions you make about answers to these questions 2) Please describe key components of the system that you would propose, assuming no external solutions can be purchased. 3) How would the original design change if you were told that traffic to your service is going to grow 50% yr over yr. 4) Would would you potentially try to deliver in the first Sprint? 2nd Sprint? 5) Let's suppose that your director would review the estimates of effort and time it would take to deliver the new system, and wasn't pleased with it as it would take 6 months to build. Instead, he would propose to extract the business rules into the configuration file and deploy it to the 5 client services that consume the output. a) How would you respond to this request? b) Imagine that your team was resisting this approach and only wanted to go froward with the best possible. What would you tell them and how would you reconcile the disagreement between your team's opinion and the director?

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