Engineering Manager Interview Questions

“What is your management style. This is a question without context. As it happens I had a similar management style as the person who asked me the question, and at the end was told he would recommend…”

“There was one coding question I had to answer that was particularly difficult was I was given a big chunk of Objective C code and asked to find the bugs in it. It was a bit like Where's Waldo where…”

“Nothing was unexpected. I was as well-prepared as they were.”

“There were no unexpected questions.”

“There is one more round which is a group oriented problem solving type interview. You are given a department and you have to face a 'budget cut' and you have to try to persuade the others in your…”

“What management books have you read recently?”

“They asked me pretty typical interview questions, nothing too technical since it was for a program management role.”

“What's the hardest decision you have made?”

“They were standard interview questions -- nothing really unexpected.”