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      Engineering Manager Interview

      6 Mar 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Lowell, MA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Autoliv (Lowell, MA) in Feb 2016

      Interview

      You are directed towards a room that has no people in it. Just some chairs and a phone. I arrived 10 minutes early for the interview, called the secretary and waited 10 minutes. I then called an additional 5 times and waited 40 minutes for her to finally come out to begin the interview. I met with the director, some engineers and another manager. The interview went generally well I thought and I later confirmed with the recruiter, that they also enjoyed the interview. But it turned out to be a phishing trip. It's been almost 2 months now since that interview. They still have not hired for that position and repeatedly tell my recruiter that they haven't made a decision yet.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Watch out for that HR/secretary. Although she was apologetic for leaving me stranded in the waiting room, I suspect it was part of the interview. Just after I was rescued from exile, she put me in a room and started filling out some sort of procedural paperwork. Even after we had exchanged pleasantries in the waiting room and we were using each others names..she asked me what my name was. I repeated it. 5 times she asked me to repeat my name. My name is a simple English name..never have I had so much trouble conveying it to someone. I suspect she was deliberately trying to stress me out to figure out how I respond to obstinate people??? <shrug> I am operating on the theory that nobody is actually that dumb.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      I was also asked a lot about my hands-on activities as a prior lead and/or manager. In todays market you have to straddle the line a bit between developer and manager. You have to be part architect, arrange and referee code reviews, know about regulated markets, etc..
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      A lot of questions about how you solved workflow issues. This is a growing company operating in a regulated market space. They are experiencing a lot of fast-growth and communication issues as they transition from start-up to large company. If you've been leading/managing for any number of years you should have good experience in transitional companies like this.
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