Engineering Manager Interview Questions

no idea

High probability is that, its a developer!! Because developer is the FIRST user of a product... Only then it reaches, QA/ProductManagement/EndUser.

Always give Company the prior at the place of work.

general manager

Provided details on past projects which were challenging

The twitter one - I enjoyed. That is probably the MNC in me, the atlantic side guys are way better thinkers and non posers than this side on hard tech. They understand, they are willing to give alternative a shot. It worked out well. It was fun, the sort of code I hate when I see in our own code base, it was a replica of that, almost. I believe this side of atlantic is jargon-only. I was asked about how new tech trend excites me - I said not really. My job as a senior guy is to ensure how the business gets more sales and profit, not fit business into a tech stack. They told about reactive programming - garbage collector. They actually believe that the public white papers tell much ( or rather anything ) about the actual garbage collectors. That is so funny. Obviously ( and I asked ) did you see the JVM code? I guess it was waste effort. The more fun thing : they explicitly said - they need a tech guy - but not such a low level guy as myself who sees every line of source code and find flaws in them. They argued about it - they are not building satellites. Yes, but that decision is not yours when you do code review. When asked did they know - if this service goes down - how much hurt in revenue would take place - they did not have any answer. The fact is - it would be totally down, it was a very key service for their transport and ordering system.

Answering was pretty easy. However we have to be strong on our basic skill sets and languages. Communication and demonstration is needed for certain logical computation and algorithms

I explained a process change that I implemented in my previous employment and provided details of the value adds because of it.