Manager Interview Questions

A list of interview questions for manager roles.

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Management

• How would you describe your management philosophy?
• If I were interviewing for this role, what question would you ask me and why?
• How do you create a long-term vision?
• How do you learn from your mistakes?
• How do you create the best team environment? What is your ideal culture?
• How do you receive and act on feedback? Talk through examples. How did it land?
• Have you ever had to make a very difficult decision? High risk/big scope
• When do you use technical expertise, when do you not?

People Management

• How do you help individuals grow? What have you done in the past?
• How do you build trust with individuals on your team?
• How do you build trust with your partners?
• How have you dealt with conflict in the past? (individuals, partners, team members)
• How would you deal with a conflict between two of your direct reports?
• Tell me about a time you had to provide constructive feedback to a team member or partner. How did you approach the feedback? What was the outcome?
• How would you deal with someone on the team who wasn’t performing or delivering what was expected of them?

Project Management

• How would you help your team provide estimates to stakeholders/partners?
• How would you approach an issue that arises in a project? If a team member lets you know that an issue has popped up that will delay the deliverable, what do you do?

Partnerships

• When have you recognized that your team needs to invest in a technology or new architecture? How did you influence others to see your vision?
• How do you like to work with product managers and designers?
• How would you approach a product manager if you don’t feel the vision or direction is the right option for the company?
• How will you help influence your team to make technical architectural changes?
• How do you approach a stakeholder or partner about a direction you disagree with?

Technical

• Tell me about a technical or architectural change you led. Why was it important to the business? What tradeoffs did you have to make?
• How will you help influence your team to make technical architectural changes?
• When is the right time to migrate to a new technology or codebase?

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Run npm install
3. Run node add to update README.md with your changes
4. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
5. Commit your changes (git commit -am "Add some feature")
6. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
7. Create new Pull Request