Scenario-Based
Hypothetical questions to assess how you handle specific challenges.
A critical system will fail in 24 hours. What do you do?
Your team is consistently missing deadlines. What steps do you take?
You need to improve a legacy system while delivering new features. How?
A key team member gives two-week notice during a critical project. What do you do?
You're asked to cut your team's budget by 20%. How do you approach this?
Two senior engineers want different technical approaches to a critical project. How do you handle this?
You've just been promoted to manage a peer who also wanted the role. How do you handle this?
Your team's product has a major outage during a holiday weekend. Walk through your response.