# Ashby Engineering Manager Interview Experience

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# Engineering Manager Interview Experience

This Aced (formerly Exponent) interview-experience record concerns an **Ashby** Engineering Manager interview for a **Mid Level / L4** candidate. The candidate was in the **Netherlands**, interviewed remotely, and reported the outcome as **Rejected**.

## Summary

- **Location:** Netherlands
- **Work arrangement:** Remote
- **Level:** Mid Level / L4
- **Result:** Rejected
- **Interview date:** 8 months ago
- **Submission:** 5 months ago
- **Overall timespan:** 2 weeks
- **Difficulty:** Moderate

## Interview process

The candidate described a fast process and said the recruiter was friendly and quick to respond, with good knowledge of how teams operate. The technical interview was with the hiring manager. The candidate had to add a filter to an existing report in TypeScript, with AI assistance.

The process included:

1. Recruiter screen
2. Technical interview

## Interview rounds

There were **2 questions across 2 rounds**.

### Recruiter screen

One question was shown in the free preview:

- [What is your strongest technical expertise?](https://www.aced.io/questions/266)

### Technical interview

One question was associated with this round. The accessible interview record also describes a **45-minute session with a senior interviewer**, mostly open-ended questions, a short follow-up near the end, and substantial discussion of tradeoffs.

The example question shown was:

> How would you improve a product you use every day for a new market?

The candidate's described approach was to choose a segment first, size it, compare three options, and then select one option and its success metric.

## Candidate tips and culture notes

- Practice answers aloud with a timer.
- Keep a framework ready for every round.
- Ask the recruiter what each interviewer focuses on so you can tailor your examples.
- Interviewers were described as collaborative and focused on the user.
- The team appeared to value structured thinking over polish.
- Interviewers left time for questions at the end.

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## More Ashby interview experiences

[A Software Engineer — Ashby, Oct 2026](https://www.aced.io/experiences/ashby-senior-software-engineer-interview-4677f4?returnPath=%2Fexperiences) is listed as a three-round experience. Its excerpt says:

> “The process was very rigorous. Especially the project deep dive. The final round was actually not too bad but I just didn't perform well because I missed some details. It was refreshing to not be doing leetcode”

[See all 2 Ashby interview experiences →](https://www.aced.io/experiences?company=ashby)

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