Lead Engineer Interview Questions

7,944 lead engineer interview questions shared by candidates

PowerDay: 1. First Interview: a. Find errors in Dockerfile, suggest changes b. Write code to get data from logs file: ..1. Amount of logs ..2. Errors and what can be learned from them ..3. All prices for a specific month
avatar

Lead DevOps Engineer

Interviewed at Capital One

3.6
May 11, 2023

PowerDay: 1. First Interview: a. Find errors in Dockerfile, suggest changes b. Write code to get data from logs file: ..1. Amount of logs ..2. Errors and what can be learned from them ..3. All prices for a specific month

Code: Two Sum Closest to Zero System design: Design a Smart Meter for an Apartment Building Behavior: Time when I accomplished a difficult goal, Time when I had a hard time during a project, Time when I challenged the status quo Case: Business advantages of a AI chat bot and diving into the challenges (data collection etc), code review and solve output from input, minor refactor
avatar

Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at Capital One

3.6
May 23, 2022

Code: Two Sum Closest to Zero System design: Design a Smart Meter for an Apartment Building Behavior: Time when I accomplished a difficult goal, Time when I had a hard time during a project, Time when I challenged the status quo Case: Business advantages of a AI chat bot and diving into the challenges (data collection etc), code review and solve output from input, minor refactor

The questions were more philosophical. I am with strong credentials and was actually taking a step down in positions (I was formerly a Sr Manager over three teams that consisted of 60+ employees, to being a Lead/individual contributor. This was fine as that is what I wanted during that part in my career. As someone who has interviewed 500+ potential candidates in my career, I knew what they were thinking so I actually led the interview and told them what I assumed they wanted to know.
avatar

Lead QA Engineer

Interviewed at Qentelli

3.9
Nov 4, 2018

The questions were more philosophical. I am with strong credentials and was actually taking a step down in positions (I was formerly a Sr Manager over three teams that consisted of 60+ employees, to being a Lead/individual contributor. This was fine as that is what I wanted during that part in my career. As someone who has interviewed 500+ potential candidates in my career, I knew what they were thinking so I actually led the interview and told them what I assumed they wanted to know.

Viewing 841 - 850 interview questions

Glassdoor has 7,944 interview questions and reports from Lead engineer interviews. Prepare for your interview. Get hired. Love your job.