Senior Software Engineering Manager Interview Questions

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The interview questions focused on technical implementation with some touching execution. Nothing on leadership, strategy, partnerships or people management which are areas that are more critical competencies at a role like this. Interviewers were argumentative on common and industry-wide adopted SDLC models and had a combative attitude throughout the interview.
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Sr Manager Software Engineering

Interviewed at GEICO

2.6
Feb 17, 2023

The interview questions focused on technical implementation with some touching execution. Nothing on leadership, strategy, partnerships or people management which are areas that are more critical competencies at a role like this. Interviewers were argumentative on common and industry-wide adopted SDLC models and had a combative attitude throughout the interview.

The recruiter asked pretty straight forward behavioral questions - rapid fire: No kidding it was like a 3 hour interview in 50 minutes. The recruiter questions were all great for a manager level interview - how did you handle this/that... Then he asked about a time when I should have done something better (I answered with a time when an employee's performance had dropped off and I did not fire them sooner): He went on to spend 10 minutes of the interview lecturing me on how to handle low performers...
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Mar 23, 2019

The recruiter asked pretty straight forward behavioral questions - rapid fire: No kidding it was like a 3 hour interview in 50 minutes. The recruiter questions were all great for a manager level interview - how did you handle this/that... Then he asked about a time when I should have done something better (I answered with a time when an employee's performance had dropped off and I did not fire them sooner): He went on to spend 10 minutes of the interview lecturing me on how to handle low performers...

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