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typical management leadership questions. The feedback was ridiculous which prompted this review. Their 3 concerns they have with me, never showed up on my 7 other company panel interview feedback, which makes me think they are BSing or got the candidates mixed up. i sometimes screw up on coding (typically what i get my negative feedback on).
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Komodo Health

3.2
Mar 15, 2022

typical management leadership questions. The feedback was ridiculous which prompted this review. Their 3 concerns they have with me, never showed up on my 7 other company panel interview feedback, which makes me think they are BSing or got the candidates mixed up. i sometimes screw up on coding (typically what i get my negative feedback on).

Programming test related to weather application which has some stubs that need to be completed and tested based on the instructions that are provided. Also we need to add new APIs and workflow. The entire thing is like a project with pom and also a terminal application embedded inside hackerrank specifically for Capital One
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Capital One

5
May 22, 2019

Programming test related to weather application which has some stubs that need to be completed and tested based on the instructions that are provided. Also we need to add new APIs and workflow. The entire thing is like a project with pom and also a terminal application embedded inside hackerrank specifically for Capital One

EM Interview: Mostly leadership-behavioral questions with some "tell me about a time"-style questions on project management. Coding/System Design combo: Coding: given a blank coder pad and asked to build an in-memory hotel booking system System Design: Build a system that allows users to sign up and register their IoT devices, have those devices send simple data to the service, and then view their data online.
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at The Farmer's Dog

3.4
Jan 25, 2024

EM Interview: Mostly leadership-behavioral questions with some "tell me about a time"-style questions on project management. Coding/System Design combo: Coding: given a blank coder pad and asked to build an in-memory hotel booking system System Design: Build a system that allows users to sign up and register their IoT devices, have those devices send simple data to the service, and then view their data online.

Q. Explain the architecture of your application. Q. Explain the data flow Q. If there is an issue occurring only with a particular customer's computer, what steps will you take to diagnose and fix the issue? Q. What kind of code review policies did you follow? Q. How is your typical day like?
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Senior Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Walmart Global Tech

3.6
Feb 29, 2024

Q. Explain the architecture of your application. Q. Explain the data flow Q. If there is an issue occurring only with a particular customer's computer, what steps will you take to diagnose and fix the issue? Q. What kind of code review policies did you follow? Q. How is your typical day like?

Phone Screens (with recruiter & Hiring manger): Background & resume focused questions. Explain how you handle a project start to end, cross functional engagement, communication across timezones. Why are you moving out, why Sony, why this position. Onsite: TPM skills and Technical skill themed rounds were focused on: Explain one technical project (as an engineer or EPM) with technical details (and then get into technical details as we got into depths). How will you design a PS network across the globe and target low latency. Stakeholder, Cultural fit & Manager interview were focused on: How would you communicate to audience across functional and geographical location (techniques & approaches of communication). How do you cross functionally engaged teams. How do you lead by influence, manage conflict, manage priority changes and conflicts How do you motivate your team. What are your 3 strong skillsets and one that you would improve on.
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Senior Engineering Program Manager

Interviewed at PlayStation

4.1
May 9, 2018

Phone Screens (with recruiter & Hiring manger): Background & resume focused questions. Explain how you handle a project start to end, cross functional engagement, communication across timezones. Why are you moving out, why Sony, why this position. Onsite: TPM skills and Technical skill themed rounds were focused on: Explain one technical project (as an engineer or EPM) with technical details (and then get into technical details as we got into depths). How will you design a PS network across the globe and target low latency. Stakeholder, Cultural fit & Manager interview were focused on: How would you communicate to audience across functional and geographical location (techniques & approaches of communication). How do you cross functionally engaged teams. How do you lead by influence, manage conflict, manage priority changes and conflicts How do you motivate your team. What are your 3 strong skillsets and one that you would improve on.

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