Hey guys, I recently interviewed with Google for Engineering Manager position few days ago. This is the process so far: I had a couple of Team fit/phone screening with a couple of different hiring managers last month. One of them went really well, both from management and technical perspective. After first couple of cultural questions hiring manager even said that its like I am listening to myself. It took recruiter a couple of weeks to get back to me and start scheduling virtual onsite. There were a total of 5 onsite rounds: 1. Coding & Algorithms It went really well. Solved 3 questions in 45 mins. All Leetcode medium level. I guess coding expectations are less from managers. 2. Technical Leadership + Googleyness I feel it went fine but it was hard gauge interviewer's reactions. 3. Large Scale System Design Interview 1 It went well. In the end interviewer said that I covered all the aspects he wanted to discuss. 4. People Management Interview It went well. Since there was a break after this interview we ended up going 5-10 mins over. Looked like interviewer was enjoying the conversation. He said I am one of the more enthusiastic candidates he has interviewed. 5. Large Scale System Design Interview 2 It didn't go well. It started ok and I was able to cover some high level components in first 10 mins. But interviewer wanted to focus more on certain infrastructure & networking aspects that I didn't have good answers for. So overall I feel 3 onsite rounds went good, 1 ok and 1 mediocre. My total experience is 16+ years and out of that 7+ years in engineering management. So what do you guys think are my odds? #engineering #EM #google
High chances of getting through IMO. What L5 or L6?
Does G interview for L5 managers?
Yes, it does
How low level were they expecting on networking for sysdesign?
Most likely, you will clear it and go to HC. I had a similar scenario for a TPM position and made it to team matching phase.
One of my systems was mediocre and the tech leadership wasn’t a strong hire, recruiter told me I qualify for L5, no waiting for HC hopefully this week. Note: If you were considered for L6 and they down level you, you might need to do team matching before HC. Everything is just anecdata, good luck!
EM role?
Yes
How many LCs did you practice?
about 125-150 questions... I practiced off and on over a long period of time..
What were the system design questions and did you practice any for the prep?
Nobody here tells the system design questions that were asked due to NDA. I definitely would tell but have never gotten to that stage yet 🤣
For system design prep I went through few engineering blogs, youtube videos and few other standard recources. Most of my practice was around designing some of the known popular services. Unfortunately Google interview questions did not follow any well known pattern.
Thanks everyone for your inputs. Got the rejection today. Main negative feedback was from system design round. I guess I bombed worse than I thought.
What do you think you should have studied more?
Sorry to hear! :(
Op, can you dm me please. Am out of DMs
@latticeEng as part of the hiring process were you aware that this position was for L6 or it was just engineering manager . I have seen very less senior engineering manager position open while many for engineering manager so was curious
Usually your recruiter would tell you. Senior engineer manager is L7 and involves managing managers
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You cant bomb any of the interviews and it looks like you did for the last one. Likely they will make you redo it if you did really well on everything else. Otherwise you'll fail.
How much coding is expected for Manager roles?
I don't know of any manager that codes, but they all still do a lot of code reviews. Also, when a director has a question about my project, they'll ask my manager and expect him to know the minute details of the implementation and he should be comfortable walking them thru the code.