People Management
Have you ever taken on a mentorship role for someone, and what was your approach to that relationship?
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Answers
Anonymous
5 months ago
During new project onboarding I noticed lot of performance differences across team members, through the regular scrum meetings I watched the overall progress and identified team members rearing help. once identified I setup mentor session with them one on one and guide them with the technology and getting up to speed with the project. Many times I spent extra time to learn in depth and give detailed know how and practice to those team memebers
Anonymous
7 months ago
Mentoring the team is one of the essential responsibilities of a Manager. Given the fact that my time is extremely divided with other responsbilities such as engaging stakeholders, running into back to back meetings during the day to meet project timelines, I always make sure to set aside a time in my day and be available for my team to discuss any mutual concerns. It is extremely important to assure the team that they have my support. Typically I have weekly 1-on-1s with my manager reportees and bi-weekly 1-on-1s with individual contributors to share feedback and provide resources for any help required. In addition, for any adhoc discussions, I make myself available towards the end of the day in case my day is fully booked.
Interview question asked to Engineering Managers, ML Engineering Managers, Data Science Managers and other roles interviewing at Nuro, Omio, Nokia and others: Have you ever taken on a mentorship role for someone, and what was your approach to that relationship?.