Ah, everyone’s favorite experience: the technical interview. We’ve heard the horror stories from individual contributors—sometimes it’s leetcode, sometimes it’s system design, sometimes you’ll be asked to code something vague or, my personal favorite, whiteboard something as if you were coding because that is totally how we do our work.
Engineering Manager technical interviews are a bit of a different kind of mixed bag. Sure, you may be tested on your ability to code if the leadership role does require hands-on coding. Meta, for example, still requires leetcode tests for EMs last time I checked. Block had an option for hands-on technical coding interviews, but when I interviewed with them long ago, it was something I could opt out of as my superpower is on the people side.
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