Senior Software Manager Interview Questions

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1. Tell me about a time a time you were working on a project you knew was going to fail and what you did about it. 2. Tell me about your favorite product or feature you've worked on and why. 3. Tell me about a time when a team member wasn't meeting expectations and how you handled it. 4. Let's design a Tiny URL system.
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Oracle

3.5
Sep 2, 2020

1. Tell me about a time a time you were working on a project you knew was going to fail and what you did about it. 2. Tell me about your favorite product or feature you've worked on and why. 3. Tell me about a time when a team member wasn't meeting expectations and how you handled it. 4. Let's design a Tiny URL system.

Questions covered a variety of areas including topics such as experience leading teams, knowledge of agile methodologies, technical skills, development tools, communication and leadership skills, industry trends, and mentoring team members.
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

3.6
Jan 28, 2023

Questions covered a variety of areas including topics such as experience leading teams, knowledge of agile methodologies, technical skills, development tools, communication and leadership skills, industry trends, and mentoring team members.

The next phone interview was with a manager in the organization that has the open position. This interviewer's accent was very thick, I work with people from all over the world with all kinds of accents and I had to have him repeat questions two or three times just to understand what the question was generally about - I was only picking up every other word - which makes a phone interview extremely difficult. I explained early in the interview that I had managed 40+ people in 5 different teams and some projects I did not technically work myself, but if he had a technical question I could go as deep as they wanted to go. He proceeded to ask me about a very specific project and immediately fixated on what the database synch-rates were as I walked through this project that I managed.
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Meta

3.6
Mar 23, 2019

The next phone interview was with a manager in the organization that has the open position. This interviewer's accent was very thick, I work with people from all over the world with all kinds of accents and I had to have him repeat questions two or three times just to understand what the question was generally about - I was only picking up every other word - which makes a phone interview extremely difficult. I explained early in the interview that I had managed 40+ people in 5 different teams and some projects I did not technically work myself, but if he had a technical question I could go as deep as they wanted to go. He proceeded to ask me about a very specific project and immediately fixated on what the database synch-rates were as I walked through this project that I managed.

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