Hi All, I have few engineering manager interviews lined up. I am a backend engineer with 11 years of experience and I have some people management experience but this is my first career change to a completely manager role. I am confident about the coding and design part of the interviews but nervous about the behavior & management interviews. I have screwed up badly in the past in behavior interviews because I was unprepared and had anxiety. Are there any resources for preparing for behavior and manager rounds? YOE : 11 TC : 255
Your TC seems low at Twitter with your YoE... I thought senior at Twitter can make 350...
Yes they can. Unfortunately I don't 😔
:( Try talking to someone about your past experience to practice. Confidence and know remember details of your past experience is the key. if you claim you lead a project you need to prepare to talk about it with passion and throughout, including design, how design decisions are made, what's the most difficult part, what can you do better etc. Also how to handle team conflicts, talk about specific cases and always answer positively. If you find yourself need to pause and recall things while you are talking then you need more prep. I wish you best luck and get better TC!
I am currently a senior engineer. I am mostly looking for startups.
It will be more scenario based rounds than IC. Manage project behind schedule, conflict on teams, deal poor performer, etc.
Write down your answers now and rehearse them! It’s really important to get them under a reasonable time (5min) and they must be real situations you had to deal with. Try to make the narrative fit the STAR model (situation, task, action, result), so they are crafted in a productive way that will make sense to the interviewer (specially experienced ones). If you don’t write them down and really think about the stories beforehand, you might get caught in the situation of saying things you might regret (under the interview pressure), and that might be all it takes to give the director/vp/ exec that is interviewing you a reason to pass. Questions you should think about: - Tell me about the time you had to deal with conflict (direct report, xfn, etc) - Tell me about a time you had to deliver a project urgently, 2 weeks before the already scoped and agreed dates. - Tell me why you want to work here. - Tell me what’s your management philosophy. - Have you ever fired someone or gave feedback to someone that was underperforming - How would you deal with someone that is disrupting and causing conflicts within your team - If I ask your manager today about your main weakness, what would be the answer? - How are you planning on hiring for your team? - Tell me about a time you failed. - Why do you want to leave your current job? - How do you coach people? What’s your approach? - What are signs the team morale needs boosting? What would you do about it? There are no right answers and you MUST be genuine about answering these questions. You don’t want to “hack” the answer to say what you think the other person wants to hear, and maybe get the rol, but get stuck in a role that you will demand you not being you. That’s worst than not getting the job, no matter how cool you think the company is. Better to be hired because your leadership/management style fits the company culture. Some might think you can “handle a few years” being someone else/pretending, but you will not be able to hold on for that long and you most likely fail (and your reports might fail too, which is unfair for them). Good luck in the interviews OP!
If you were not a manager ever by title, it would be hard for you - dont fake it.
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Op can you share what tech you have worked on in your career. Thanks.
I am a backend engineer and primarily work on Java but I am flexible with changing tech stack.