Ask HN: Going for my first eng manager interview – advice/expectations?

  • Focus the conversations around your experience being an EM in your current role. Do NOT expect that you should know (or should have experienced) certain things because you are a manager in your current role...just accept candidly what you have experienced and what you haven't.

    Management is all about experience.

  • Make absolutely, positively, beyond a doubt certain that you gel with the team and that you understand and believe in product being built.

    I didn’t when I took my first leadership role and it was one of the most miserable years of my life. I ended up catapulting myself out what felt like second before burning out.

  • So the questions you can expect are: what processes do you use / like, how do you address conflict, how do you get the most from your people.