What we’ve learned about hiring engineering managers

Engineering managers at CircleCI are now dedicated to people management: focused on development of a set of engineers, tech leads, and team leads. This is what our hiring process for engineering managers looks like now:

Using the new process, which puts emphasis on people management and business value delivery, we assess for these skills as follows:

1. Product thinking and work breakdown discussion: In this interview, the candidate and another member of our engineering management team discuss some questions related to their ability to understand work and delivery, and guide discussions from a customer value perspective.

Source: circleci.com