Tell me about an employee you hired who was successful and why.
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How did you go about setting up the current team ?
Tell me about a time when you need to sacrifice short term gains to get better gain in a long term. Tell me about when you have a divergence with you superior and how do you solve this.
I prepared by trying to understand the 14 leadership principals and then prepared several experiences per principal. I don't think it was necessary to memorize memorize the list of principals, but you should be able to rattle off a few in context and be able to talk about any of them if asked. Questions are usually, "tell a time when..." performance management, hard problems, process improvement, etc. You can't really prep for the design question but it will be vague so ask questions.
Design a ticketing system - data model to infrastructure design.
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How do you manage low performer in the team. Interviewer was looking for detail plan for the person and what were the results How do you identify good performer in the team and how do you help in his career growth. Overall architecture of your current project Any complicated architecture problem you solved recently
Tell me an example where you had a disagreement with your Senior Engineer and how you handled the situation.
You have to deal with a Low Performer and what is the development plan you have laid out.
Talk about a failure and what you learnt from it.
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