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"When hiring a technical manager, an employer will look for candidates with the management skills and industry knowledge to oversee company projects that require members to have large amounts of technical knowledge, usually in the form of programming and software development. Some of the interview questions you may be asked will target your management experience and philosophy while others will focus on your understanding of the technical processes you will be working with in the project."

Top Technical Manager Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Have you ever dealt with staff members who were resistant to new technology or technological processes? How did you handle the situation?

How to answer
How to answer: A technical manager often introduces and rolls out new technology products and processes to an organization's staff members, so it's important to know how to do so in a positive way. When answering this question, try to think about a specific situation in which you dealt with resistant staff and how you interacted with those individuals in a positive way. As you describe the situation, use the STAR method: Situation, Task, Action, Result. This question allows you to describe your problem-solving and communication skills.
Question 2

Question #2: Describe your process for researching and implementing new technology.

How to answer
How to answer: When answering a question about your process, consider a specific situation in which you researched and/or implemented a new technology in a previous role. Describe the steps you took and why you took each step, as well as the outcome of your research and rollout processes.
Question 3

Question #3: How did the last company you worked for benefit from your technical expertise?

How to answer
How to answer: Answering a question about your technical expertise allows you to elaborate on your technical skills and strengths and how they benefited those around you in your previous role. Describe specific situations that highlight the importance of your work, such as new technologies that you implemented or rolled out that led to significant improvements or positive results.

10,267 technical manager interview questions shared by candidates

First interview: Easy screening questions. The person in the phone was very nice and had a good talk. Second interview was more like a conversation. I believe this one was very pleasant and fluid. What is your management style? kind of questions. But sometimes I made more questions than the hiring manager himself. Third interview: By the book questions... What are your weaknesses, What are you strengths? Since they did not even have my resume, the "tell us about yourself", and also some others more complicated, fully related to the position and which I presume I did not get the job. My answers probably were not what they look for, which is fine.
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Technical Support Manager

Interviewed at Stratasys

3.4★
Mar 2, 2015

First interview: Easy screening questions. The person in the phone was very nice and had a good talk. Second interview was more like a conversation. I believe this one was very pleasant and fluid. What is your management style? kind of questions. But sometimes I made more questions than the hiring manager himself. Third interview: By the book questions... What are your weaknesses, What are you strengths? Since they did not even have my resume, the "tell us about yourself", and also some others more complicated, fully related to the position and which I presume I did not get the job. My answers probably were not what they look for, which is fine.

if there were 3 light bulbs in the basement and 3 switches upstairs without designation of what switch was for which light how would you determine what switch was for the first light, the second light and third light.
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Network Operations Center Technical Manager

Interviewed at AOL

3.8★
Dec 11, 2013

if there were 3 light bulbs in the basement and 3 switches upstairs without designation of what switch was for which light how would you determine what switch was for the first light, the second light and third light.

I was asked which of the companies that I have left in the past would I like to go back to work for? This was without understanding my career path or my interests. To the interviewer's credit, there was an attempt to learn what happened with my previous employer, ie Microsoft.
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Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Jobalign

3.7★
Oct 31, 2014

I was asked which of the companies that I have left in the past would I like to go back to work for? This was without understanding my career path or my interests. To the interviewer's credit, there was an attempt to learn what happened with my previous employer, ie Microsoft.

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