Welcoming questions
- Can you tell us about your path from engineer to manager and what motivated the move?
- How would your current team describe your management style?
Role-specific / technical competencies
- Walk us through how you run planning with your product partner, from roadmap to sprint commitments.
- Tell us about an engineer you grew from mid-level to senior. What did you actually do?
- How do you stay technically credible without writing much code? Give a recent example of a design discussion you shaped.
- Describe how you have improved a team's delivery predictability. What was broken and what changed?
- How do you structure your hiring process for engineers, and what signals do you weight most?
Behavioural & culture fit
- Tell us about a time you managed someone out. How did you reach the decision and handle the process?
- Describe a conflict between two strong engineers on your team. How did you resolve it?
- Tell us about a decision where you overrode your team's preference. How did you maintain trust afterwards?
Problem-solving / case
- You inherit a team with low morale, slipping deadlines, and a frustrated product manager. What do you do in your first 30 days?
- Your strongest engineer threatens to resign unless promoted, but they are not ready. How do you handle the conversation?
- Leadership commits your team to a deadline you believe is impossible. Walk us through your next steps.
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