Here are some prompts taken from Sally Lait’s article on “Tell me about a time documents”.
- Times you’ve dealt with conflict or difficult interpersonal situations
- How you’ve approached managing underperformance
- Examples of helping others with their career development
- As a manager, supporting other managers with challenging situations
- How you’ve approached differences between managing ICs and managers
- Examples of successfully changing culture
- Times you’ve contributed to org design
- How you keep in touch with technology as a manager
- Balancing technical improvements vs product work/business strategy
- Leading technology strategy
- Approach to local/global engineering standards
- Build vs buy decisions
- How you approach prioritisation
- Managing improvement projects
- Breaking down large, ambiguous pieces of work
- Impact outside of your team
- How you approach measurement and metrics