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Mix of Technical Scenario, targeted behavioral / situational questions and some conversational styles across rounds; E.g. Describe a process from first principles for creating an environment platform in AWS that allows Developers to auto create/provision Dev Environment which can then initiate integration to CI/CD workflow. Tell me about a time when you had to change from an initial approach in addressing a challenge with a stakeholder. Are you more process oriented or technical - Do you gravitate towards architectural solutioning / theory or do you prefer dealing with with situations tactically, why... Describe most significant organisational impacting change you introduced in the last 12 months in current role.
Aug 9, 2020

Mix of Technical Scenario, targeted behavioral / situational questions and some conversational styles across rounds; E.g. Describe a process from first principles for creating an environment platform in AWS that allows Developers to auto create/provision Dev Environment which can then initiate integration to CI/CD workflow. Tell me about a time when you had to change from an initial approach in addressing a challenge with a stakeholder. Are you more process oriented or technical - Do you gravitate towards architectural solutioning / theory or do you prefer dealing with with situations tactically, why... Describe most significant organisational impacting change you introduced in the last 12 months in current role.

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Director, Software Engineering

Interviewed at New Relic

3.5
Mar 5, 2021

Q: What would my critics say about me? Q: What is the toughest product I have worked on, and what made it challenging? Q. What is my management style? Q: How do I help contribute to a diverse environment as a manager? Many others

The usual behavioral questions you expect for the position/level. How to set and measure direction with teams; how to build trust; grow teams, etc. The final technical interview was a design and present a hypothetical distributed system covering scale, performance, security, resilience, etc.
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Director of Engineering

Interviewed at Checkout.com

4
Jun 1, 2022

The usual behavioral questions you expect for the position/level. How to set and measure direction with teams; how to build trust; grow teams, etc. The final technical interview was a design and present a hypothetical distributed system covering scale, performance, security, resilience, etc.

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