Manager Interview Questions – Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who gave their input on their favorite manager interview questions. Here are the results. I will begin to use them starting in August.

Here they are in rank order of most chosen.

1. What’s the most important factor you consider when hiring someone?
2. Who was your most effective boss, and what made him or her stand out?
3. What was the most difficult transition that you made in your career?
4. How do you approach helping someone with their career development or path?
5. What tools and tricks do you use to find work-life balance?
6. How do you go about building relationships with your peers and other leaders in the company?

I will probe more deeply as they answer the questions – looking to get as much information as possible. And I will ask at least one question that is specific to the person that I am interviewing.

For completeness, here are the questions that I used for the first four interviews. Some are the same as, or similar to those above.

• What tools and tricks do you use to find work-life balance?
• How do you prioritize your work?
• Tell me about an example where you had to let someone go for underperforming.
• If you had to give advice to someone setting up a team in another country, what would it be?
• What was the most difficult transition that you made in your career?
• Do you have any book recommendations that you would like to share?
• What are the one or two things that you want to tell me that I didn’t ask?

Thank you again for your help!