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These questions are suitable for asking Engineering Managers, especially useful for the Team Matching phase of Google interviews or post-offer calls that your recruiters set up with the various team managers.
* **How do you train/ramp up engineers who are new to the team?**
* **What does success look like for your team?**
* **What does success look like for your team/project?**
* **What qualities do you look out for when hiring for this role?**
* **What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current team? What is being done to improve upon the weaknesses?**
* **Can you tell me about a time you resolved an interpersonal conflict?**
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* What is the current team composition like?
* What opportunities are available to switch roles? How does this work?
* Two senior team members disagree over a technical issue. How do you handle it?
* Have you managed a poor performer at some point in your career before?. What did you do and how did it work?
* Have you managed a poor performer at some point in your career before? What did you do and how did it work?
* Where do you spend more of your time, high performers or low performers?
* Sometimes there's a trade-off between what's best for one of your team members and what's best for the team. Give an example of how you handled this and why.
* Give an example of a time you faced a difficult mentoring/coaching challenge. What did you do and why?
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* What is the role of data and metrics in managing a team like ours?
* What role does the manager play in making technical decisions?
* What is an example of a change you have made in the team that improved the team?
* What would be the most important problem you would want me to solve if I joined your team?
* What opportunities for growth will your team provide?
* What would I work on if I joined this team and who would I work most closely with?