Tell me about your leadership style.
Senior Director Engineering Interview Questions
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Describe the project you worked on and what was your role? How would you design a converter from EDM to RDO format differently?
A project I led in last job.
Can you describe your experience with maintaining facilities operations?
Management questions focused on past experience handling, planning, & prioritizing work, encouraging staff, and coaching. We discussed major overhauls of systems into new systems. And also, how to grow a current feature into its next phase. Also, how to plan that out.
What is the largest team size you have managed?
Are you willing to learn PHP? (to a senior director candidate...)
They are based on Coupang's leadership principles which is almost identical to Amazon's leadership principles
Are you able and willing to do all the work of the individual contributors on the team as a team does not exist yet?
The architectural interviews were mostly focused on if I still was technical or if I'd completely lost touch with what's going on on the front line. There were questions about testing, testing boundaries, testing ideology, and practices. As well as questions regarding architecture for designing a single system to manage all the elevators in the city. It was very open ended. I enjoyed brain storming around the concept.
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