Overview
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Job interviews may sound like a breeze: you walk in, talk about yourself, and answer any questions the interviewers may have. In reality, these interviews can be nerve-wracking. You want to make sure that stress or anxiety don’t get the better of you and stop you from delivering your best in an important, perhaps career-altering, interview.
If a switch to management is what you’re looking for, or you’ve already moved to management and are looking to move upwards or to switch your employer, then you’re in the right place.
Engineering and management are two vastly different yet interdependent roles on any team. Around the middle of your career, you can decide whether to switch to management or continue growing as an engineer. A major part of this transition is going to be your interview for the role of engineering manager (EM).
If you’ve spent most of your career as a software engineer, then the transition to management can be a tricky one. We designed this course to help set expectations for the overall interview loop for the role of an engineering manager. Usually, multiple interviews make up the interview loop for an EM position. The main focus of this course will be on the management interview, but it also covers important aspects and guidelines for other interviews in the loop.
After completing this course, you’ll have a grasp of the interview questions and how to answer them, as well as what responsibilities to expect from the engineering manager role.
If building high-performing teams and helping people grow is what you’re passionate about, then becoming an EM may be the perfect decision for you. As an engineering manager, people take precedence over technology. Your job is to manage the people who make the technology. For this role, you need top-notch people management and communication skills. You’ll be building an engineering team, defining efficient processes, managing cross-functional stakeholders, representing your team to other teams, and managing top-level communication.
If you prefer to dedicate most of your time to solving complex engineering problems, then maybe you’re better off trying to grow as an engineer.
Why you need to prepare beforehand
Your interviewers will be on the lookout for several important things. Preparing systematically for the more likely questions is an excellent strategy to make sure you ace the interview. You need to keep your thoughts organized and deliver your answers in a cool and strategic manner. Getting frazzled or accidentally saying the wrong thing will work against your overall assessment.
This course covers all the questions you’re most likely to be asked during your management interviews. Each question has an example answer to demonstrate the best response, along with pointers on what the interviewer is looking for and what not to say.
We also cover strategies to prepare your story bank and how to structure your responses to make a great impression on the interviewer. Making a good impression not only helps you get the offer but also determines what level you’re calibrated on and the compensation package you’ll receive.