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* How often are 1:1s conducted?
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* What is the current team composition like?
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* What opportunities are available to switch roles? How does this work?
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* Two senior team members disagree over a technical issue. How do you handle it?
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* Have you managed a poor performer at some point in your career before?. What did you do and how did it work?
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* Where do you spend more of your time, high performers or low performers?
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* Sometimes there's a trade-off between what's best for one of your team members and what's best for the team. Give an example of how you handled this and why.
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* Give an example of a time you faced a difficult mentoring/coaching challenge. What did you do and why?
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* What is your management philosophy?
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* What is the role of data and metrics in managing a team like ours?
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* What role doing the manager play in making technical decisions?
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### Leadership
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* [A developer's guide to interviewing](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-interview-as-a-developer-candidate-b666734f12dd)
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* [Questions I'm asking in interviews 2017](https://cternus.net/blog/2017/10/10/questions-i-m-asking-in-interviews-2017/)
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* [What are good questions to ask during a software developer interview when asked "Do you have any questions now?"](https://www.quora.com/What-are-good-questions-to-ask-during-a-software-developer-interview-when-asked-do-you-have-any-questions-now/answer/John-L-Miller)
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* [What are some good questions to ask when interviewing someone for a manager position?](https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-questions-to-ask-when-interviewing-someone-for-a-manager-position/answer/David-Seidman)

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