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People Management
2 years ago
Can you talk about a time when a customer or co-worker was dissatisfied with your work and how you handled the situation?
Engineering ManagerML Engineering ManagerData Engineering ManagerData Science Manager

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Intel

Audible

+4

Situation:

We had a customer who was complaining a lot about inventory sync and order sync issues. Every other day they would raise issues and tag my manager, skip level manager and a bunch of other folks

Task:

I was scheduled for a customer call by my skip level manager and the agenda was to discuss their overall satisfaction with the product, discuss their questions, suggest action items and give them a sneak peek about new features

Action

- Before going into the meeting I dug deeper into past issues the merchant is facing

- I analysed his replies to see the ton of the merchant

- I wrote an action plan on how these can be resolved including Short, medium and long term items eg in few cases the merchant reached out to us regarding an issue whereas those should have been internally identified via different monitors which were missing

- I laid out the plan with specific ETA's

- I prepared a small ppt of 5-6 slides which had these details

- I also added new and upcoming feature releases

- I went in the meeting and patiently listened to the customer

- I acknowledged all the issues that happened and shared short, medium and long term fixes with ETA's

- The seller was very happy with the acknowledgement and the action items

- I ensured to keep them updated via our shared slack channel

Result

- Fewer queries from customer

- Minimal to no tagging to senior leadership

- If anything needed to be escalated they used to tag me first

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2 years ago
System Design
2 years ago
Architect a system for handling distributed secrets securely.
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2 years ago
Behavioral
2 years ago
Can you discuss a project that you feel particularly proud of and why?
Engineering ManagerProduct ManagerBackend EngineerSoftware Engineer

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Cisco

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GoodData

+2

One project i'm proud of is my internship project which was a full stack project where i had the chance to create a prototype of a template manager , storing the data into a cassandra database, alongside using springboot and java to work on the module structure and life of the project, I then used js and react for UI. This prototype was then deployed and is now being used by internal payment team at jpmc, instead of going to search every resource, i store all the templates in one template manager and they can know just search the nav bar and get the exact template they need. I'm proud of this project not only because it was my first real project using the new languages and frameworks i was learning during internship but it also gave me the confidence of knowing and seeing that I can do this even though i dont have a degree in this field!

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2 years ago
Behavioral
2 years ago
Can you recall a time when you accomplished a challenging goal?
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Digit

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Verb

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2 years ago
Behavioral
2 years ago
Can you share an experience where you had a disagreement with your boss, and how did you address it?
Engineering ManagerTechnical Program ManagerSoftware EngineerBackend Engineer

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Nuro

Sendbird Logo

Sendbird

+3

S(Situation):在2024年9月底,我所在团队灰度上线了一个重要新功能。上线不久后,我们注意到产品的 NPS 分数出现了明显下滑。我的老板非常担心这个变化是由我们新功能引起的,因此建议我们暂停功能的进一步上线。

T(Task):考虑到我们灰度期间已经收到不少正向的用户反馈和行为数据,我担心贸然暂停功能会影响节奏,并可能误判问题根源。我希望找出 NPS 下滑的真正原因,并用更稳妥的方式推进问题解决。

A(Action):我首先分析了 NPS 下滑的时间节点,发现其发生在我们功能上线之前。结合用户评价存在滞后性的特点,我判断两者未必直接相关。随后我深入分析了近期的低分评价和客服 ticket,发现主要问题集中在打印出错、页面崩溃等历史遗留的功能性 bug。
我将这些发现整理成文档分享给老板,建议我们先优先修复这些问题,并继续观察 NPS 变化。同时,我也请他指出是否存在新功能相关的反馈痛点,以便一并跟进优化。我们快速完成了 hotfix,并验证后上线。

R(Result):两周内,NPS 分数从 xx 回升到 xx(如能填具体更好),我们功能也顺利推进至全量发布,后续使用量增长了 xx%。老板也认可了我们以数据驱动决策的方式,对我在这件事中的判断力和推进力给予了肯定。

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2 years ago
Behavioral
3 years ago
Can you share an experience when a mistake on your part impacted a project and how you addressed the issue?
Engineering ManagerML Engineering ManagerData Science Manager

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CoinDCX

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NXP Semiconductors

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3 years ago
People Management
3 years ago
Can you share your approach to assessing your performance as an engineering manager?
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Blue Origin

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Taboola

Since most people rate then selves as better than average, I'm better than average.  But seriously, i have tried to apply becoming a better software manger by applying the same  process  to becoming a better software developer, find others who are good at the role determine behaviours that make them good, any processes that hey follow that lead to success, read books recommended by the industry , try to apply the techniques and ask feedback from directs on how I am doing, its a journey where I can always get better, looking back on previous directs i can see them progressing through their careers i would hope that my time as a manager influenced them, also past projects I have delivered as a team woudl indicate I must have been doing something right as the teams delivered

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3 years ago
XFN Leadership
3 years ago
How do you ensure that stakeholders are meeting their commitments and obligations?
Engineering ManagerML Engineering ManagerData Engineering ManagerData Science Manager

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Karat

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Illumina

+2

At Auctane, I followed a structured process to ensure alignment - I would initial have date for date, and followed up with an email for alignment. I would also send a weekly status report for the leadership highlinting the project status and identifying any risks associated and how I am working on mitigating that risks.

 For eg. in one of our projects we had a external dependencies on UPS for a new API version - our PM was working with them and the delays on their end had impact for us - the project would have been delayed by a month.

I communicated with the leadership team on the risks and the plan i have to mititgate this risk. I had a join stakeholder meeting with the UPS team and my PM. We could identify parts of the API which we could work on while they are working on thier issues - by working out a parallel path - I could reduce the risk and deliver the project on time.

By being proactive and collobrating with the stakeholders I could deliver the project on time.





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XFN Leadership
3 years ago
Who typically serves as your stakeholders in your work? Can you discuss your strategy for managing stakeholders if there is a delay in the delivery of a project or task?
Engineering ManagerML Engineering ManagerData Science Manager

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Procore Technologies

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Grafana Labs

+1

Yeah, so let me break it down in terms of the first part of the question, which is who are typically my stakeholders. So I often work with startups, in which case stakeholders are often my CEO, my co-founders, cross-functional partners in design, marketing, at times compliance and legal, and then oftentimes just the investors, straight up. And for the second part of the question, you asked what's a time that we didn't meet expectations in a timely manner, and how do I go about managing their expectations, right? And concretely what that looked like, my process is essentially getting the status report internally, get all the details. Two, present that information, communicate what the situation is. Three, manage expectations in terms of what we believe we'll be able to get done, what the next steps are to remedy, and when we can get back on track. Four, have milestones and metrics in order to inform our progress, so make sure we're on track for the next milestone. And five, support and follow-up in terms of I'm blocking my team, keeping everyone in the loop, and making sure having a retrospective on the next cycle when we did or did not meet those expectations. So concretely what this looked like was there was a cycle at Dendron, this company where I was an engineering manager essentially for a team of 10, and we had not yet found product-market fit in terms of finding the right users, needed to hit retention metrics of a very high percentage, and this was taking more time than expected. This is like the most important metric for any startup. So internally, well, I talked with the team and it looks like, yeah, we're mixed it, where there's an interesting hypothesis developing around what's possible, and we have figured out possible next steps in terms of new features that we wanted to build. We brought this information to our meetings with our investors, and we were able to say, look, these metrics look promising, and we're developing new hypotheses, new features to test in those. So we were able to keep them up-to-date on what our progress was, what our plan was going to be, and we had these metrics in terms of goals we wanted to hit. For example, we wanted to hit 70% four-week retention on these metrics, these milestones, and we were able to inform them in the next couple of weeks on our progress with respect to those metrics. And concretely, we were able to engineer these solutions, in particular with infrastructure engineers, actually, for this note-taking app that we were building. So we realized a lot of parts that they were missing was they didn't need to context switch, so we built features that allowed them to take notes as efficiently as possible on the configurations or whatever they're working on without context switching out of that engineering mode. And we were able to deliver and grew retention from something like 50% to 70% within that particular niche, and we were able to get the buy-in and the trust of all those stakeholders back again.

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3 years ago
Behavioral
3 years ago
Can you describe your approach to building trust with your team members?
Engineering ManagerData Engineering ManagerML Engineering ManagerUX Designer

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Western Digital

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FleetSmith

+19

To earn trust within a team, I believe it’s important to start with a small, achievable task and deliver a high-quality result on time. Once I’ve proven that I can deliver reliably, I gradually take on more complex tasks, building credibility along the way.

Equally important is asking the right questions and actively participating as a team member. At XYZ, when I joined a new team, I gained trust by ensuring that we only committed to tasks we could realistically deliver. Once we met our goals, I took the initiative to showcase our accomplishments to leadership, highlighting the team’s impact and visibility.

By consistently delivering results and advocating for the team, I was able to earn the trust of both my teammates and leadership.

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