This may be an unusual ask coming from an Engineering Manager who is supposed to know their stuff. I have been an EM at a large ($120B+) software company (using a temp account) for 5 years now and recently started exploring EM / Sr. EM opportunities at a few companies, including some of the FAANG.
I feel I have been doing well in all rounds, but clearly there's something amiss as I have been getting rejected everywhere. To be clear, I have been outright rejected only once. In all other cases, I was offered different teams / roles (first level Mgr / IC) from what I interviewed for.
Interviewed at Amazon, Dropbox, Uber, Autodesk. Two more biggies coming up, and I am feeling hopeless.
I am pretty sure it's my behavioral rounds and not the technical ones that are hurting me.
What could I be doing wrong? Are there mock interviews for Managers like for engineers?
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At your current company, can you list down the typical daily routine and time-table of any of the engineers you manage? Or can you tell all the tasks that any of your engineers did yesterday along with the time duration of each task?
How will above information help OP? Specifically all task any of Engineers did, along with duration
EM - manages Engineers and the dev team
Sr. EM - manages managers and potentially a small product team as well (depending on the org)
So Sr.EMs tend to be single facet owners for a product - again depending on the company
The major differences tend to be around people management (which a lot of dev managers aren’t good with ) , hiring strategy and track record, building teams etc.
Another thing is if your management/leadership is scalable or can you only run one team yourself ? This is the most important distinction for the 2. And also relevant experience.
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