emthrowaway

Google has Team Matching interviews before starting the Candidate selection interviews. If you end-up clearing all the interviews rounds, then you can either select one of the teams from Team Match rounds or continue finding a team. If it's former then you know your manager.

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

I was asking them those questions to validate my answers and learn better ways to tackle those questions in the future.

Some standard questions -

1. Conflict resolution 2. Hiring/Firing 3. Strategy 4. 1:1s 5. Career management of DRs

i. For Hiring/Firing - One interviewer said - she don't like to fire people :-) ii. For conflict resolution - another interviewer has a made up story

from the past interviews

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I do not have any problem working as an EM from the last 5+ years. I've always shipped. I think the interviewers are looking to hear something else, instead of what I've been telling them. Maybe, I need to calibrate my response or respond a bit differently. Happy to share more of my work\interview experience, if asked.

I hope some of you, who have cleared these EM interviews or who are currently interviewers at FAANG can guide me a bit as feedback is a gift.

Thanks a lot.