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What this posting asks for

Level: Manager — The title says "Manager".

Main responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a squad of 4-5 engineers: Hiring, 1:1s, career coaching, managing for performance
  • Own delivery for your squad end to end, from sprint planning and delivery commitments through service SLAs and operational health
  • Write and ship code alongside your team, authoring pull requests that land in production
  • Be accountable for the squad's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar, either via a tech lead on the squad, or by taking on the tech lead role yo…
  • Use AI coding agents and tooling to raise both your own leverage and your squad's, and establish the practices that make that durable for the team
  • Partner with Product and Design on scope, prioritization, and quarterly planning, surfacing technical dependencies and capacity needs early
  • Act as the squad's cross-functional point of contact for its technical capabilities and dependency coordination, and carry the "what should we build" convers…
  • Identify technical debt and advocate for sustainable engineering, staying an active contributor to the codebase
  • Ensure quality, performance, and operational health, including a healthy on-call and incident-response culture
  • Build growth paths for the engineers on your squad towards the higher IC levels or a future TLM role

Competencies an interviewer will look for

  • Technical skill Core
    In the posting: “Chime is looking for a hands-on engineering leader to guide the Human Agent Tooling team within Trust & Safety.” · “You’ll also remain deeply involved in the technical work, writing and shipping production code alongside your team.” · “The Human Agent Tooling team builds the software Chime’s support agents use to understand member needs, take the right actions, and resolve issues quickly an…”
    Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off.
  • Teamwork and collaboration Core
    In the posting: “Partner with Product and Design on scope, prioritization, and quarterly planning, surfacing technical dependencies and capacity needs early” · “Act as the squad's cross-functional point of contact for its technical capabilities and dependency coordination, and carry the "what should we build" convers…” · “Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with a track record of partnering closely with Product, Design, and Analytics.”
    Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled.
  • Ownership and accountability Core
    In the posting: “Own delivery for your squad end to end, from sprint planning and delivery commitments through service SLAs and operational health” · “Be accountable for the squad's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar, either via a tech lead on the squad, or by taking on the tech lead role yo…” · “We each bring an owner's mindset to our work, refusing to be outdone and holding ourselves accountable to meet and exceed the highest bars for our teams, our…”
    Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it.
  • Leadership and mentoring Core
    In the posting: “As a Tech Lead Manager, you’ll lead a squad of 3–5 engineers, set the hiring bar, coach and develop talent, and own execution and delivery.” · “Manage and develop a squad of 4-5 engineers: Hiring, 1:1s, career coaching, managing for performance” · “Be accountable for the squad's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar, either via a tech lead on the squad, or by taking on the tech lead role yo…”
    Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
  • Planning and organisation Core
    In the posting: “Own delivery for your squad end to end, from sprint planning and delivery commitments through service SLAs and operational health” · “Partner with Product and Design on scope, prioritization, and quarterly planning, surfacing technical dependencies and capacity needs early” · “Interest in pushing the technology, people, and organization envelope to explore new ways we can deliver amazement to our customers.”
    Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how.
  • Attention to detail and quality Core
    In the posting: “Chime is looking for a hands-on engineering leader to guide the Human Agent Tooling team within Trust & Safety.” · “The Human Agent Tooling team builds the software Chime’s support agents use to understand member needs, take the right actions, and resolve issues quickly an…” · “Be accountable for the squad's technical direction, architecture, and quality bar, either via a tech lead on the squad, or by taking on the tech lead role yo…”
    Show it by: Gives an example of an error caught before it caused harm; Names the check or standard they used.
  • Problem solving Supporting
    In the posting: “The Human Agent Tooling team builds the software Chime’s support agents use to understand member needs, take the right actions, and resolve issues quickly an…”
    Show it by: Describes a real problem, the options considered and the one chosen; Shows how the cause was found, not just the fix.
  • Customer focus Supporting
    In the posting: “Interest in pushing the technology, people, and organization envelope to explore new ways we can deliver amazement to our customers.”
    Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company.
  • Data and analysis Supporting
    In the posting: “Experience with similar tech: Ruby, React Native, Distributed Systems, AWS services (data, compute) and Service Oriented Architectures.”
    Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it.
  • Stakeholder management Supporting
    In the posting: “Contribute to broader T&S and Chime engineering initiatives as a member of the engineering leadership team”
    Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior.

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Practice questions

  1. Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
  2. If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
  3. Built from this posting (8):
  4. Walk me through a piece of work where you used your strongest technical skill. What exactly did you do? From this posting
  5. Describe a time you worked with another team to deliver something. What was your part? From this posting
  6. Tell me about a task you took from start to finish without anyone asking you to. From this posting
  7. Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
  8. How have you used writing in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
  9. Tell me about a problem you solved using scheduling. From this posting
  10. Tell me about a difficult problem you solved at work. How did you find the cause? From this posting
  11. Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
  13. This posting reads as Data analysis: its questions come first.
  14. Tell me about an analysis that changed a decision. Data analysis
  15. Describe a time you found that the data you were given was wrong. Data analysis
  16. A manager asks you for 'the numbers' by tomorrow with no further detail. What do you do? Data analysis
  17. How do you check that a query or spreadsheet you built gives the right answer? Data analysis
  18. What makes a dashboard useful, and how have you built one? Data analysis
  19. Tell me about a time you explained a statistical result to people without a data background. Data analysis
  20. Sales dropped 15% last month. How would you find out why? Data analysis
  21. Describe a new tool or technique you learned to finish a piece of work. Data analysis
  22. Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
  23. Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
  24. Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
  25. Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
  26. Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
  27. Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
  28. Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
  29. Describe a process you improved.
  30. Do you have any questions for us?
  31. Why do you want to work here?
  32. Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
  33. Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
  34. Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
  35. What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
  36. What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
  37. You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
  38. Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
  39. A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
  40. How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
  41. Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
  42. You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
  43. Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
  44. How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
  45. How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
  46. Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
  47. Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
  48. A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
  49. How do you keep your pipeline organised?
  50. Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
  51. You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
  52. Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.