Your essential EM Interview crash course. Learn strategies from FAANG hiring managers to demonstrate your leadership skills & experience to interviewers.

Engineering leaders serve as a backbone of an organization and play a significant role in how a company operates. Companies invest significantly in hiring good managers through an interview process designed to measure a broad spectrum of candidates’ technical and leadership competencies. 
In this course, you’ll examine the interview process, understand the engineering management hierarchy and learn about the leadership phone screen. You’ll explore various engineering management aspects, including people management, project management, organization building, managing collaborations, and personal strengths. Next, you’ll explore good interview questions and possible good answers. 
By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the engineering leadership interview process, leadership skills, and the ability to articulate situational stories from past experiences. You’ll also learn the importance of building a story bank to recall relevant experiences during the interviews effectively.

Grokking the Engineering Management and Leadership Interviews

# Introduction

This section provides a comprehensive overview of the interview process for those preparing for engineering management interviews or transitioning from an individual contributor role to a leadership role. The focus of this section is to thoroughly explain the interview process, describe the various levels of engineering leadership, and briefly mention the different types of interviews in the interview process, including the leadership phone screen and technical interviews. The purpose of this section is to create a roadmap for the learner. 

Let’s look at how this course is organized.


Before We Begin

Introduction

People Management

Project Management

Organization Building

Managing Collaborations

Behavioural Interviews

Conclusion

Structure of the Course

Introduction