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| amazon engineering manager interview: The Software Engineering Manager Interview Guide Vidal Graupera, Interviewing can be challenging, time-consuming, stressful, frustrating, and full of disappointments. My goal is to help make things easier for you so you can get the engineering leadership job you want. The Software Engineering Manager Interview Guide is a comprehensive, no-nonsense book about landing an engineering leadership role at a top-tier tech company. You will learn how to master the different kinds of engineering management interview questions. If you only pick up one or two tips from this book, it could make the difference in getting the dream job you want. This guide contains a collection of 150+ real-life management and behavioral questions I was asked on phone screens and by panels during onsite interviews for engineering management positions at a variety of big-name and top-tier tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Pinterest, Salesforce, Intuit, Autodesk, et al. In this book, I discuss my experiences and reflections mainly from the candidate’s perspective. Your experience will vary. The random variables include who will be on your panel, what exactly they will ask, the level of training and mood of the interviewers, their preferences, and biases. While you cannot control any of those variables, you can control how prepared you are, and hopefully, this book will help you in that process. I will share with you everything I’ve learned while keeping this book short enough to read on a plane ride. I will share tips I picked up along the way. If you are interviewing this guide will serve you as a playbook to prepare, or if you are hiring give you ideas as to what you might ask an engineering management candidate yourself. CONTENTS: Introduction Chapter 1: Answering Behavioral Interview Questions Chapter 2: The Job Interviews Phone Screens Prep Call with the Recruiter Onsite Company Values Coding, Algorithms and Data structures System Design and Architecture Interviews Generic Design Of A Popular System A Design Specific To A Domain Design Of A System Your Team Worked On Lunch Interview Managerial and Leadership Bar Raiser Unique One-Off Interviews Chapter 3: Tips To Succeed How To Get The Interviews Scheduling and Timelines Interview Feedback Mock Interviews Panelists First Impressions Thank You Notes Ageism Chapter 4: Example Behavioral and Competency Questions General Questions Feedback and Performance Management Prioritization and Execution Strategy and Vision Hiring Talent and Building a Team Working With Tech Leads, Team Leads and Technology Dealing With Conflicts Diversity and Inclusion |
| amazon engineering manager interview: The Software Engineering Manager Interview Guide Vidal Graupera, Interviewing can be challenging, time-consuming, stressful, frustrating, and full of disappointments. My goal is to help make things easier for you so you can get the engineering leadership job you want. The Software Engineering Manager Interview Guide is a comprehensive, no-nonsense book about landing an engineering leadership role at a top-tier tech company. You will learn how to master the different kinds of engineering management interview questions. If you only pick up one or two tips from this book, it could make the difference in getting the dream job you want. This guide contains a collection of 150+ real-life management and behavioral questions I was asked on phone screens and by panels during onsite interviews for engineering management positions at a variety of big-name and top-tier tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, LinkedIn, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Pinterest, Salesforce, Intuit, Autodesk, et al. In this book, I discuss my experiences and reflections mainly from the candidate’s perspective. Your experience will vary. The random variables include who will be on your panel, what exactly they will ask, the level of training and mood of the interviewers, their preferences, and biases. While you cannot control any of those variables, you can control how prepared you are, and hopefully, this book will help you in that process. I will share with you everything I’ve learned while keeping this book short enough to read on a plane ride. I will share tips I picked up along the way. If you are interviewing this guide will serve you as a playbook to prepare, or if you are hiring give you ideas as to what you might ask an engineering management candidate yourself. CONTENTS: Introduction Chapter 1: Answering Behavioral Interview Questions Chapter 2: The Job Interviews Phone Screens Prep Call with the Recruiter Onsite Company Values Coding, Algorithms and Data structures System Design and Architecture Interviews Generic Design Of A Popular System A Design Specific To A Domain Design Of A System Your Team Worked On Lunch Interview Managerial and Leadership Bar Raiser Unique One-Off Interviews Chapter 3: Tips To Succeed How To Get The Interviews Scheduling and Timelines Interview Feedback Mock Interviews Panelists First Impressions Thank You Notes Ageism Chapter 4: Example Behavioral and Competency Questions General Questions Feedback and Performance Management Prioritization and Execution Strategy and Vision Hiring Talent and Building a Team Working With Tech Leads, Team Leads and Technology Dealing With Conflicts Diversity and Inclusion |
| amazon engineering manager interview: How to Write an Engineering Manager Resume or CV Vidal Graupera, No one is taught how to apply for a job. Finding a job is hard work, time-consuming, stressful, and often frustrating. I aim to make it simpler for you to get the engineering leadership position you want. A well-written resume is an important tool. Consider your resume as a sales sheet—and you are a product! A resume for an engineering manager should highlight your technical expertise and experience managing teams and projects. It should also demonstrate your ability to communicate effectively and drive technical strategy. Writing a resume can be a daunting task, especially if you're not sure where to start. In How to Write an Engineering Manager Resume, I will show you step-by-step how to make a resume that shows off your technical skills and your ability to lead. I cover the most important parts of a resume for an engineering manager, like work experience, education, skills, and accomplishments. I also offer tips and advice on how to show off your accomplishments and set yourself apart from other candidates, as well as what mistakes to avoid. Whether you're an experienced engineering manager or just starting in the field, this book will help you create a resume that gets noticed and helps you land the job you want. Vidal Graupera December 2022 |
| amazon engineering manager interview: The Software Engineer's Guidebook Gergely Orosz, 2024-02-04 In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance. By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support engineers reporting to me with the kind of feedback and support I wish I would have gotten years earlier. And I did. While my team tripled over the next two years, people became visibly better engineers, and this progression was clear from performance reviews and promotions. This book is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years – and then some more. This book follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers. We cover “soft” skills which become increasingly important as your seniority increases, and the “hard” parts of the job, like software engineering concepts and approaches which help you grow professionally. The names of levels and their expectations can – and do! – vary across companies. The higher “tier” a business is, the more tends to be expected of engineers, compared to lower tier places. For example, the “senior engineer” level has notoriously high expectations at. Google (L5 level) and Meta (E5 level,) compared to lower-tier companies. If you work at a higher-tier business, it may be useful to read the chapters about higher levels, and not only the level you’re currently interested in. The book is composed of six standalone parts, each made up of several chapters: Part 1: Developer Career Fundamentals Part 2: The Competent Software Developer Part 3: The Well-Rounded Senior Engineer Part 4: The Pragmatic Tech Lead Part 5: Role Model Staff and Principal Engineers Part 6: Conclusion Parts 1 and 6 apply to all engineering levels, from entry-level software developer, to principal-and-above engineer. Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 cover increasingly senior engineering levels and group together topics in chapters, such as “Software Engineering,” “Collaboration,” “Getting Things Done,” etc. Naming and levels vary, but the principles of what makes a great engineer who is impactful at the individual, team, and organizational levels, are remarkably constant. No matter where you are in your career, I hope this book provides a fresh perspective and new ideas on how to grow as an engineer. Praise for the book “From performance reviews to P95 latency, from team dynamics to testing, Gergely demystifies all aspects of a software career. This book is well named: it really does feel like the missing guidebook for the whole industry.” – Tanya Reilly, senior principal engineer and author of The Staff Engineer's Path Spanning a huge range of topics from technical to social in a concise manner, this belongs on the desk of any software engineer looking to grow their impact and their career. You'll reach for it again and again for sage advice in any situation. – James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify, author of TheEngineeringManager.com |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Think Like a Software Engineering Manager Akanksha Gupta, 2024-08-06 Unlock your full potential as an effective, efficient, and inspiring leader, and be the software engineering manager that your team deserves! Most development teams are only as good as their leader. In this practical guide, you’ll explore all aspects of the software engineering manager’s job, from operational practices to the core skills of handling humans. Think Like a Software Engineering Manager is full of all the skills you’ll need to thrive in software leadership, including: People and performance management Empathy and feedback Delegation and learning to let go Hiring amazing engineers and handling attrition Collaborating with cross-functional partners Managing expectations at all levels Implementing engineering and operational excellence Time and organizational change management Experienced team leader Akanksha Gupta helps you explore whether software engineering management is the right move for your career, guides you through preparing for the position, and gives you all the tools you need to thrive in the role. Thought-provoking exercises help you apply what you learn to your daily professional life, and prepare you for making the big decisions about software. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology A software engineering manager needs to be an amazing communicator, an effective decision maker, and a thoughtful mentor. Your success depends on your ability to evaluate and manage projects, motivate and lead your team, and coolly handle whatever crisis each new day brings. It’s a big transition, and this book will guide you every step of the way. About the book Think Like a Software Engineering Manager teaches you how to hire, train, and lead a successful development team. You’ll start with building and managing your team to maximize performance. You’ll then quickly progress to strategies for delivering large scale projects, cultivating excellence in your projects, and managing change. Author Akanksha Gupta’s battle stories and industry anecdotes from her work at Amazon, Audible, Robinhood, and Microsoft reveal how the experts handle the biggest engineering management challenges. What's inside People and performance management Hiring amazing engineers and handling attrition Collaborating with cross-functional partners Practice for success with insightful exercises About the reader For new and aspiring software engineering managers. About the author Akanksha Gupta is an engineering leader at Amazon AWS. She has served as an engineering manager at Robinhood, Audible, and Microsoft and passionately champions the cause of empowering women within the tech industry. The technical editor on this book was Bruce Bergman. Table of Contents PART 1 1 Exploring the engineering manager role 2 Individual contributor to engineering manager 3 Managing people, teams, and yourself 4 Managing performance 5 Delegation: Learn to let go 6 Rewards and recognition 7 Hiring 8 Handling attrition PART 2 9 Working with cross-functional partners 10 Project management, execution, and delivery 11 Managing expectations PART 3 12 Engineering and operational excellence 13 Organizational change management 14 Time management 15 Beyond this book: Grow yourself |
| amazon engineering manager interview: 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know Camille Fournier, 2019-11-21 Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every engineering manager should know. With 97 short and extremely useful tips for engineering managers, you'll discover new approaches to old problems, pick up road-tested best practices, and hone your management skills through sound advice. Managing people is hard, and the industry as a whole is bad at it. Many managers lack the experience, training, tools, texts, and frameworks to do it well. From mentoring interns to working in senior management, this book will take you through the stages of management and provide actionable advice on how to approach the obstacles you’ll encounter as a technical manager. A few of the 97 things you should know: Three Ways to Be the Manager Your Report Needs by Duretti Hirpa The First Two Questions to Ask When Your Team Is Struggling by Cate Huston Fire Them! by Mike Fisher The 5 Whys of Organizational Design by Kellan Elliott-McCrea Career Conversations by Raquel Vélez Using 6-Page Documents to Close Decisions by Ian Nowland Ground Rules in Meetings by Lara Hogan |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Shipping Greatness Chris Vander Mey, 2012-08-27 Need a shortcut to a degree in shipping great software? Successful team leaders must have an extremely broad skill set to find the right product, work through a complex and ever-changing development process, and do it all incredibly quickly. In this guide, Chris Vander Mey provides a simplified, no-BS approach to the entire software lifecycle, distilled from lessons he learned as a manager at Amazon and Google. In the first part of the book, you’ll learn a step-by-step shipping process used by many of the best teams at Google and Amazon. Part II shows you the techniques, best practices, and skills you need to face an array of challenges in product, program, project, and engineering management. Clearly define your product and develop your mission and strategy Assemble your team and understand enough about systems to communicate with them Create a beautiful, intuitive, and simple user experience Track your team’s deliverables and closely manage the testing process Communicate clearly to gracefully handle requests, senior-management interactions, and feedback from various sources Build metrics to track progress, spot problems, and celebrate success Stick to your launch checklist and plan for marketing and PR |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Core Leadership and Management Skills, Tips & Strategy Handbook Neil Hoechlin, 2018-05-11 WHOSE FAULT IS IT WHEN SUBORDINATES DISOBEY? Chances are, it's the managers. He lacks the tools, training, and experience to command respect and obedience from his people. He needs to upgrade his skillsets, and learn how to manage and lead people! He needs to show consistent and positive results! And this is the goal of this book. Specifically, you will learn the following: Introduction • You made manager; what's next? • What to consider before accepting the managerial role • The role of a manager Making things happen- becoming a successful manager • First order of business as a new manager • How to set goals • Performance management • Delegate like a pro • Knowing how to hire and when to fire Hiring employees Firing employees • Managing employee turnover • Managing difficult clients • Change management • Tips to succeed as a manager Tips for start-up entrepreneurs • Managing money in your business • Leading and managing a start-up successfully Management meets leadership • Differences between leadership and management • Qualities of an exceptional leader • Leadership styles Women and leadership • How to get to the top • Balancing leadership and family as a woman Preparing children for leadership What it takes to be a great CEO • Duties you need to master Top ten daily habits of great leaders Leadership: is there an App for that? Ever wondered what it takes to be a great leader & manager? Would you like to be armed with the tools and know-how to become one? Read this book! Download your copy today! |
| amazon engineering manager interview: China and Globalization in the Amazon Cleiton Maciel Brito, 2022-12-30 China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. Based on ethnographic work conducted in several Chinese factories in the Amazon region of Brazil, whether private, partially private, or state-owned, it explores the impact of these factories on the lives of workers, specifically on wages, laws, and labor benefits, as well as the relationship between management and workers. Drawing on interviews with Brazilian workers, expatriate Chinese workers, union leaders, and factory managers, the author identifies a Chinese production model and sheds light on the implementation of externally defined work regimes that showed little engagement with the workforce in the region, together with practices that resulted in a technical or bureaucratic relationship with the worker, and the emergence of lower wages than the local average, as well as few concessions on labor benefits. A study of Chinese globalization and industrial expansion in the developing world, and the reactions of workers to the Chinese model of management, this volume will be of interest to scholars of the sociology of work and organizations, globalization, development studies, and politics. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Technical Program Manager's Handbook Joshua Alan Teter, 2022-12-16 Explore the different aspects of the technical program manager's role in the tech world and get ready to advance your career across the Big Five tech companies Key Features Uncover the secret to becoming a successful technical program manager Learn some of the system design principles and architectural concepts necessary for a TPM Get up and running with a wide range of foundational program management topics Book DescriptionThe technical program manager (TPM) is a relatively new role born out of the need of the tech industry to have a specialized practitioner who speaks both tech and business and leverages this bilingual talent to get results that no one else can. This book dives into what makes a TPM tick. You’ll find out which project and program management skills will help you shine and how you can apply your technical skills for effective results. This book looks at the TPM role across the Big Five tech companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Meta) to help you discern the most effective skills to be successful no matter which company you work for. Are you already a well-performing TPM looking to see what’s next? This book identifies the career paths for a TPM at the Big Five to help you decide the next step for you. By the end of this book, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to be a TPM, along with a breakdown of the necessary technical and program management skills to develop a clear roadmap for your career.What you will learn Investigate why a TPM is an important role in the tech industry Understand the purpose and uniqueness of the TPM role Discover what makes a successful TPM Navigate project management with your unique technical skills Explorer the career opportunities available for a TPM Compare the TPM role and responsibilities across the Big Five tech leaders Who this book is for This TPM book is for aspiring and established technical program managers in the tech industry. To get the most out of this book, you should have a basic understanding of the project management life cycle and be comfortable with technical concepts as we dive into basic system design and architecture landscapes in context to the TPM role and expectations. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Working Backwards Colin Bryar, Bill Carr, 2021-02-09 Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time Amazon executives—with lessons and techniques you can apply to your own company, and career, right now. In Working Backwards, two long-serving Amazon executives reveal the principles and practices that have driven the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them—much of it during the period of unmatched innovation that created products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services—Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was developed and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable. With keen analysis and practical steps for applying it at your own company—no matter the size—the authors illuminate how Amazon’s fourteen leadership principles inform decision-making at all levels of the company. With a focus on customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence, Amazon’s ground-level practices ensure these characteristics are translated into action and flow through all aspects of the business. Working Backwards is both a practical guidebook and the story of how the company grew to become so successful. It is filled with the authors’ in-the-room recollections of what “Being Amazonian” is like and how their time at the company affected their personal and professional lives. They demonstrate that success on Amazon’s scale is not achieved by the genius of any single leader, but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined, rigorously-executed principles and practices—shared here for the very first time. Whatever your talent, career or organization might be, find out how you can put Working Backwards to work for you. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Machine Learning Interviews Susan Shu Chang, 2023-11-29 As tech products become more prevalent today, the demand for machine learning professionals continues to grow. But the responsibilities and skill sets required of ML professionals still vary drastically from company to company, making the interview process difficult to predict. In this guide, data science leader Susan Shu Chang shows you how to tackle the ML hiring process. Having served as principal data scientist in several companies, Chang has considerable experience as both ML interviewer and interviewee. She'll take you through the highly selective recruitment process by sharing hard-won lessons she learned along the way. You'll quickly understand how to successfully navigate your way through typical ML interviews. This guide shows you how to: Explore various machine learning roles, including ML engineer, applied scientist, data scientist, and other positions Assess your interests and skills before deciding which ML role(s) to pursue Evaluate your current skills and close any gaps that may prevent you from succeeding in the interview process Acquire the skill set necessary for each machine learning role Ace ML interview topics, including coding assessments, statistics and machine learning theory, and behavioral questions Prepare for interviews in statistics and machine learning theory by studying common interview questions |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Organizing and Managing Insanely Great Products David Fradin, 2020-12-16 This is the second in a series of three books dedicated to the goal of building, managing, marketing and selling insanely great (successful) products. The first covers “Building Insanely Great Products: The Six Keys to Success”. The third is “Marketing and Selling Insanely Great (Successful) Products”. This book covers the key factors in Organizing and Managing Insanely Great (Successful) Products.Worldwide, in every size company there is an urgent need to align product management success approaches with modern product enterprise trends. As a result, there are changes that are driving the need to reconsider product success management paradigms. This book covers these changes and much more from a 360 degree perspective.This book discusses these teams and their effect on organizing and managing product pain points; Leadership team and enterprise, Innovation team, Strategic IT team and technology adoption, the Infosec team and information security, Partner focused teams and partners, Performance management teams and enterprise performance, Business process teams and Core and support business processes. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: The Business Year: Colombia 2020 Peter Howson, The twin effects of the Saudi-Russian oil price war and the global COVID-19 pandemic in the first half of 2020 provided an extraordinary challenge for the already embattled Duque administration. What was meant to be a year of stable growth is virtually guaranteed to become the country's first recession since 1999. However, the quick and targeted government response at the onset of the pandemic and Colombia's strong macroeconomic fundamentals have most projections in agreement that Colombia will weather the storm among the best in the region, giving way to a strong recovery period. The Business Year's country-specific publications, sometimes featuring over 150 face-to-face interviews, are among the most comprehensive annual economic publications available internationally. This 172-page publication covers finance, energy, mining, industry, security, IT, transport, infrastructure, real estate, agriculture, health, tourism, and entertainment. The report features dozens of interviews, including: |
| amazon engineering manager interview: How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers Patrick McCuller, 2013-01-23 Want a great software development team? Look no further. How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers: Building a Crack Development Team is a field guide and instruction manual for finding and hiring excellent engineers that fit your team, drive your success, and provide you with a competitive advantage. Focusing on proven methods, the book guides you through creating and tailoring a hiring process specific to your needs. You’ll learn to establish, implement, evaluate, and fine-tune a successful hiring process from beginning to end. Some studies show that really good programmers can be as much as 5 or even 10 times more productive than the rest. How do you find these rock star developers? Patrick McCuller, an experienced engineering and hiring manager, has made answering that question part of his life's work, and the result is this book. It covers sourcing talent, preparing for interviews, developing questions and exercises that reveal talent (or the lack thereof), handling common and uncommon situations, and onboarding your new hires. How to Recruit and Hire Great Software Engineers will make your hiring much more effective, providing a long-term edge for your projects. It will: Teach you everything you need to know to find and evaluate great software developers. Explain why and how you should consider candidates as customers, which makes offers easy to negotiate and close. Give you the methods to create and engineer an optimized process for your business from job description to onboarding and the hundreds of details in between. Provide analytical tools and metrics to help you improve the quality of your hires. This book will prove invaluable to new managers. But McCuller’s deep thinking on the subject will also help veteran managers who understand the essential importance of finding just the right person to move projects forward. Put into practice, the hiring process this book prescribes will not just improve the success rate of your projects—it’ll make your work life easier and lot more fun. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Summary of Kristi Coulter's Exit Interview Milkyway Media, 2024-05-02 Buy now to get the main key ideas from Kristi Coulter's Exit Interview For twelve years, Kristi Coulter navigated the intense work culture at Amazon. Throughout her tenure, Kristi grappled with the overwhelming workload, the complexities of corporate politics, and the struggle to balance personal well-being with professional aspirations. In Exit Interview (2023), she delves into her personal and professional journey. Kristi’s story is one of ambition, resilience, and self-discovery, set against the backdrop of Amazon’s relentless drive for innovation and efficiency, as well as a wider context of women’s struggles. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: When Fears are Grounded DREAMS TAKE WINGS Dr. Lenny Markose, 2023-02-27 When circumstances and negative influences forced her to give up her lifelong ambition, with her indomitable spirit, perseverance and faith in God, like a Phoenix, she overcame these hurdles to achieve success. Many a time we tend to give up in the face of failures and disappointments. Lenny has shown how, one can overcome such hindrances in everyday life. Life is never a planned journey. We should grasp the moments as they come in our path. As you journey through the various twists and turns of her life, you will be surprised how destiny has formatted a truly extraordinary life in a simple village girl. Her sojourn through her childhood in Malaysia; her early family life in East Africa and the ultimate settling down to a wonderful professional and family life is a remarkable saga of contemporary life. Setbacks and tragedies are there in everyone’s lives. How you face them and make the best use of the experiences in life brings out the true worth of the individual. The book is all about a life that can be built around an edifice of Christian faith and ideals with absolute motivation and perseverance. - Dr. M M Markose |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Balancing Green Yossi Sheffi, 2018-03-30 An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes—from Coca Cola and Siemens to Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps and Patagonia—navigate these competing goals. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than 250 executives, Sheffi examines the challenges, solutions, and implications of balancing traditional business goals with sustainability. Sheffi, author of the widely read The Resilient Enterprise, argues that business executives' personal opinions on environmental sustainability are irrelevant. The business merits of environmental sustainability are based on the fact that even the most ardent climate change skeptics in the C-suite face natural resource costs, public relations problems, regulatory burdens, and a green consumer segment. Sheffi presents three basic business rationales for corporate sustainability efforts: cutting costs, reducing risk, and achieving growth. For companies, sustainability is not a simple case of “profits versus planet” but is instead a more subtle issue of (some) people versus (other) people—those looking for jobs and inexpensive goods versus others who seek a pristine environment. This book aims to help companies satisfy these conflicting motivations for both economic growth and environmental sustainability. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Exit Interview Kristi Coulter, 2023-09-12 A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com, from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This. “A unique and brilliant book.” —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth? Your sanity? In 2006, Kristi Coulter left her cozy but dull job for a promising new position at the fast-growing Amazon.com, but she never expected the soul-crushing pressure that would come with it. In no time she found the challenge and excitement she’d been craving—along with seven-day workweeks, lifeboat exercises, widespread burnout, and a culture driven largely by fear. But the chase, the visibility, and, let’s face it, the stock options proved intoxicating, and so, for twelve years, she stayed—until she no longer recognized the face in the mirror or the mission she’d signed up for. Unsparing, absurd, and wickedly funny, Exit Interview is a rare journey inside the crucible that is Amazon. It is an intimate, surprisingly relatable look at the work life of a driven woman in a world that loves the idea of female ambition but balks at the reality. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops Philippe Kruchten, Peggy Gregory, 2024-01-28 This open access book constitutes papers from the research workshops presented at XP 2022 and XP 2023, respectively the 23rd and 24th International Conferences on Agile Software Development, held on June 13-17, 2022 at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and June 13-16, 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners. In 2022, the following workshops took place: ● 3rd International Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming ● 2nd International Workshop on Agile Sustainability ● Agile and Education In 2023, six workshops were held: ● Workshop on Organisational Debt and Large-Scale Agile ● Workshop on Software-Intensive Business ● Workshop on Global and Hybrid Work ● Workshop on Fear-Based Agile Transformation ● Workshop on AI-assisted Agile ● Workshop on Agile-Quantum Software Engineering In 2022, 6 workshop papers were accepted for publication in these post-proceedings, out of 11 submissions, and in 2023, 15 papers were accepted for publication out of 38 submissions. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Television in the Streaming Era Jean Chalaby, 2023-04-06 This book explores the value chain that underpins the TV industry and reveals how digital technologies are accelerating the global shift. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Scaling People Claire Hughes Johnson, 2023-03-07 From a Stripe and Google executive, a practical guide to company building and scaling the most important resource it has: its people. A leader at both Google and Stripe from their early days, Claire Hughes Johnson has worked with founders and company builders to try to replicate their success. The most common questions she’s asked are not about business strategy—they’re about how to scale the operating structures and people systems of a rapidly growing startup. Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment. The tactical information it puts forward—including guidance on crafting foundational documents, strategic and financial planning, hiring and team development, and feedback and performance mechanisms—can be applied to companies of any size, in any industry. Scaling People includes dozens of pages of worksheets, templates, exercises, and example documents to help founders, leaders, and company builders create scalable operating systems and lightweight processes that really work. Implementing effective leadership and management practices takes effort and discipline, but the reward is a sustainable, scalable company that’s set up for long-term success. Scaling People is a detailed roadmap for company builders to put the right operating systems and structures in place to scale the most important resource a company has: its people. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Product Management Essentials Aswin Pranam, 2017-12-12 Gain all of the techniques, teachings, tools, and methodologies required to be an effective first-time product manager. The overarching goal of this book is to help you understand the product manager role, give you concrete examples of what a product manager does, and build the foundational skill-set that will gear you towards a career in product management. To be an effective PM in the tech industry, you need to have a basic understanding of technology. In this book you’ll get your feet wet by exploring the skills a PM needs in their toolset and cover enough ground to make you feel comfortable in a technical discussion. A PM is not expected to have the same level of depth or knowledge as a software engineer, but knowing enough to continue the conversation can be a benefit in your career in product management. A complete product manager will have a 360-degree understanding of user experience and how to craft beautiful products that are easy-to-use, with the end user in mind. You’ll continue your journey with a walk through basic UX principles and even go through the process of building a simple set of UI frames for a mock app. Aside from the technical and design expertise, a PM needs to master the social aspects of the role. Acting as a bridge between engineering, marketing, and other teams can be difficult, and this book will dive into the business and soft skills of product management. After reading Product Management Essentials you will be one of a select few technically-capable PMs who can interface with management, stakeholders, customers, and the engineering team. What You Will Learn Gain the traits of a successful PM from industry PMs, VCs, and other professionals See the day-to-day responsibilities of a PM and how the role differs across tech companies Absorb the technical knowledge necessary to interface with engineers and estimate timelines Design basic mocks, high-fidelity wireframes, and fully polished user interfaces Create core documents and handle business interactions Who This Book Is For Individuals who are eyeing a transition into a PM role or have just entered a PM role at a new organization for the first time. They currently hold positions as a software engineer, marketing manager, UX designer, or data analyst and want to move away from a feature-focused view to a high-level strategic view of the product vision. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Computerworld , 2001-07-02 For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network. |
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| amazon engineering manager interview: Getting to Know the Manager Vladimir Radovic, 2014-08-22 Based on the author's Day-Timer notebooks, this collection of episodes records a process of getting acquainted with an influential manager in a multicultural environment. Set in four countries of the Western hemisphere, the chapters describe the human side of unusual events and relationships. Within the context of international financial affairs, the story gradually reveals a remarkable life story of migration from the old to the new continent. The book is not only entertaining and easy to read but is highly instructive and relevant for the practice of management and teamwork in any multinational organization. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: Career Choices of Female Engineers National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients, 2014-10-03 Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing engineers in the United States. What factors influence women graduates' decisions to enter the engineering workforce and either to stay in or leave the field as their careers progress? Researchers are both tapping existing data and fielding new surveys to help answer these questions. On April 24, 2013, the National Research Council Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore emerging research and to discuss career pathways and outcomes for women who have received bachelor's degrees in engineering. Participants included academic researchers and representatives from the Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, and Census Bureau, as well as several engineering professional societies. Career Choices of Female Engineers summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop. |
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| amazon engineering manager interview: The Google Resume Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2011-01-25 The Google Resume is the only book available on how to win a coveted spot at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or other top tech firms. Gayle Laakmann McDowell worked in Google Engineering for three years, where she served on the hiring committee and interviewed over 120 candidates. She interned for Microsoft and Apple, and interviewed with and received offers from ten tech firms. If you’re a student, you’ll learn what to study and how to prepare while in school, as well as what career paths to consider. If you’re a job seeker, you’ll get an edge on your competition by learning about hiring procedures and making yourself stand out from other candidates. Covers key concerns like what to major in, which extra-curriculars and other experiences look good, how to apply, how to design and tailor your resume, how to prepare for and excel in the interview, and much more Author was on Google’s hiring committee; interned at Microsoft and Apple; has received job offers from more than 10 tech firms; and runs CareerCup.com, a site devoted to tech jobs Get the only comprehensive guide to working at some of America’s most dynamic, innovative, and well-paying tech companies with The Google Resume. |
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| amazon engineering manager interview: Scaling Teams Alexander Grosse, David Loftesness, 2017-01-11 Leading a fast-growing team is a uniquely challenging experience. Startups with a hot product often double or triple in size quickly—a recipe for chaos if company leaders aren’t prepared for the pitfalls of hyper-growth. If you’re leading a startup or a new team between 10 and 150 people, this guide provides a practical approach to managing your way through these challenges. Each section covers essential strategies and tactics for managing growth, starting with a single team and exploring typical scaling points as the team grows in size and complexity. The book also provides many examples and lessons learned, based on the authors’ experience and interviews with industry leaders. Learn how to make the most of: Hiring: Learn a scalable hiring process for growing your team People management: Use 1-on-1 mentorship, dispute resolution, and other techniques to ensure your team is happy and productive Organization: Motivate employees by applying five organizational design principles Culture: Build a culture that can evolve as you grow, while remaining connected to the team’s core values Communication: Ensure that important information—and only the important stuff—gets through |
| amazon engineering manager interview: The Business Year: Ecuador 2022 , The Business Year: Ecuador 2022 is our seventh annual publication on the Ecuadorian economy. Our research was carried out in the midst of COVID-19 and a major shift along the political spectrum following the election of Guillermo Lasso. A key objective of this publication is to measure the extent to which Lasso has fueled the business landscape with optimism. In this 176-page edition, which features interviews with top business leaders from across the economy, as well as news and analysis, we cover: green economy, finance, hydrocarbons, mining, industry and commerce, telecoms and IT, transport, construction, real estate, agriculture, health, education, and tourism. |
| amazon engineering manager interview: IT Project Management: A Geek's Guide to Leadership Byron A. Love, 2016-10-04 This book’s author, Byron Love, admits proudly to being an IT geek. However, he had found that being an IT geek was limiting his career path and his effectiveness. During a career of more than 31 years, he has made the transition from geek to geek leader. He hopes this book helps other geeks do the same. This book addresses leadership issues in the IT industry to help IT practitioners lead from the lowest level. Unlike other leadership books that provide a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership, this book focuses on the unique challenges that IT practitioners face. IT project managers may manage processes and technologies, but people must be led. The IT industry attracts people who think in logical ways—analytical types who have a propensity to place more emphasis on tasks and technology than on people. This has led to leadership challenges such as poor communication, poor relationship management, and poor stakeholder engagement. Critical IT projects and programs have failed because IT leaders neglect the people component of people, process, and technology. Communications skills are key to leadership. This book features an in-depth discussion of the communications cycle and emotional intelligence, providing geek leaders with tools to improve their understanding of others and to help others understand them. To transform a geek into a geek leader, this book also discusses: Self-leadership skills so geek leaders know how to lead others by leading themselves first Followership and how to cultivate it among team members How a geek leader’s ability to navigate disparate social styles leads to greater credibility and influence Integrating leadership into project management processes The book concludes with a case study to show how to put leadership principles and practices into action and how an IT geek can transform into an effective IT geek leader. |
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