Senior Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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What is the mission of SRE? How to define success of your team? How to measure success of IC compare to Manager? How to choose which technology to use? How to manage conflict of interests? How to deal with "hard" employees? What is your management style? How to manage contractors? What might be different in managing contractor compare to full-time employee? How to manage remote teams? How to define metrics for a monitoring system? How to avoid false-positives?
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Senior Manager Site Reliability Engineering

Interviewed at JCPenney

3.3
Jun 7, 2019

What is the mission of SRE? How to define success of your team? How to measure success of IC compare to Manager? How to choose which technology to use? How to manage conflict of interests? How to deal with "hard" employees? What is your management style? How to manage contractors? What might be different in managing contractor compare to full-time employee? How to manage remote teams? How to define metrics for a monitoring system? How to avoid false-positives?

I signed an NDA, but for the senior manager interview they didn't ask any coding question. There was just one architecture question, everything else was a behavioral interview. They also asked me to do a presentation for one of my recent projects.
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Twilio

3.9
Aug 4, 2022

I signed an NDA, but for the senior manager interview they didn't ask any coding question. There was just one architecture question, everything else was a behavioral interview. They also asked me to do a presentation for one of my recent projects.

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