Senior Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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No technical questions. What is a characteristic manager? What are the characteristic of a bad manager? Who was you best manager? Who was you work manager? Tell me about a time you failed. A lot more of this weirdness.... which IMHO gives no indication of how I can manage an engineering team.
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Stripe

3.7
Mar 2, 2018

No technical questions. What is a characteristic manager? What are the characteristic of a bad manager? Who was you best manager? Who was you work manager? Tell me about a time you failed. A lot more of this weirdness.... which IMHO gives no indication of how I can manage an engineering team.

The questions were focused on how I would employ the limited resources available to the office during the upcoming two to three fiscal years and how I would be able to improve performance and morale of existing personnel.
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Senior Mechanical Engineering Manager

Interviewed at U.S. Department of Transportation

4.1
Feb 10, 2020

The questions were focused on how I would employ the limited resources available to the office during the upcoming two to three fiscal years and how I would be able to improve performance and morale of existing personnel.

Very standard interview questions such as: Tell me about your background. What would you consider to be one of your greatest achievements in your career? What is one of the most challenging projects you've worked on in the past?
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Senior Director, Engineering

Interviewed at GE Appliances

3.8
Nov 17, 2022

Very standard interview questions such as: Tell me about your background. What would you consider to be one of your greatest achievements in your career? What is one of the most challenging projects you've worked on in the past?

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