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Operations really wanted to know how I discipline people. Not how I problem solve, build teams, get the most out my people...nope, just about discipline. After spending too much time on the topic, I knew I would not fit within their culture.
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Maintenance and Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Kraft Heinz

3.5
Mar 25, 2013

Operations really wanted to know how I discipline people. Not how I problem solve, build teams, get the most out my people...nope, just about discipline. After spending too much time on the topic, I knew I would not fit within their culture.

What is the biggest technical challenge you and your team have accomplished? How do you contribute to design discussions and code reviews? Can you give an example of a design discussion where you influenced the technical direction? What’s your process for architecture reviews or tradeoff decisions (e.g. REST vs GraphQL)? Have you ever encountered a performance or scalability issue? How did you diagnose, quantify, and address it? What was the impact and plan going forward?
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Software Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Qualtrics

3.6
Jul 28, 2025

What is the biggest technical challenge you and your team have accomplished? How do you contribute to design discussions and code reviews? Can you give an example of a design discussion where you influenced the technical direction? What’s your process for architecture reviews or tradeoff decisions (e.g. REST vs GraphQL)? Have you ever encountered a performance or scalability issue? How did you diagnose, quantify, and address it? What was the impact and plan going forward?

The most difficult question was complicated (and had a 15 minute deadline), but was close to the following: Develop an algorithm in pseudo code for finding the largest group of numbers with a value greater than all other numbers (i.e. 3,4,5,5,5,2,5,5,3). Answer, would be 5,5,5. The algorithm must be performant over millions of rows.
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Engineering Manager

Interviewed at Kaseya

3.7
Aug 14, 2019

The most difficult question was complicated (and had a 15 minute deadline), but was close to the following: Develop an algorithm in pseudo code for finding the largest group of numbers with a value greater than all other numbers (i.e. 3,4,5,5,5,2,5,5,3). Answer, would be 5,5,5. The algorithm must be performant over millions of rows.

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