# How do you coach and develop your engineering team? Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/questions/1546/coaching-engineering-team Source observed: 2026-11-05T00:11:04.084Z Last checked: 2026-11-05T00:11:04.084+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-05T22:55:28.044+00:00 --- # How do you coach and develop your engineering team? We provide interview preparation through questions, expert answer videos, courses, peer practice, coaching, and community answers. This behavioral question is tagged for **Engineering Manager**, **Product Manager**, and **Software Engineer** roles and concerns coaching and developing an engineering team. ## Access and membership The detailed company statistics and answer video require an upgrade. Membership includes: - 100+ expert answer videos - Access to all courses - Peer-to-peer practice - Private Discord community - Full question database [Upgrade](https://www.aced.io/upgrade?src=questions) · [Upgrade now](https://www.aced.io/upgrade?src=questions) The video features Anusha, an engineering manager at Yelp and Checkr, answering the question. ## Interview metadata - **Reported last asked:** 7 months ago - **Interview reports:** 6 interviews - **Category:** Behavioral - **Roles:** [Engineering Manager](https://www.aced.io/questions?role=em), [Product Manager](https://www.aced.io/questions?role=pm), [Software Engineer](https://www.aced.io/questions?role=swe) - **Companies represented:** [Apple](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=apple), [Cisco](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=cisco), [Google DeepMind](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=google-deepmind), [Pinterest](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=pinterest), [Stripe](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=stripe), [Cointracker](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=cointracker) ## Interview experiences Four shared experiences are shown: - **Apple · 7 months ago — Engineering Manager.** The candidate describes a process of about three months, two screens before the onsite, an in-depth system-design engineer screen, and onsite rounds focused on observability, storage migration, host cost, matrix collaboration, a cross-organization partnership round, and a code review that became live coding. [Read the experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/apple-engineering-manager-interview-4e34b3) - **Cisco · 8 months ago — Software Engineer, Principal / Director / L8+.** The process had no coding rounds, but included two system designs, one behavioral round, and one cross-functional round; the candidate received an offer. [Read the experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/cisco-principal-software-engineer-interview-fe6a26) - **Google DeepMind · a year ago — Product Manager.** The candidate entered through a referral, had a recruiter conversation, two 30-minute hiring-manager introductions, and a four-interview final loop. The rounds centered on AI product cases, including proactivity in Gemini, and required a proposed solution and UX walkthrough. [Read the experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/google-deep-mind-product-manager-interview-1798cf) - **Pinterest · a year ago — Product Manager, Senior / L5.** The process included a recruiter screen, hiring-manager round, product-sense interview, two product-execution interviews, a cross-functional interview, and another hiring-manager conversation. Themes included judgment, execution, segmentation, diagnosis, engineering collaboration, empathy, and authenticity. [Read the experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/pinterest-senior-product-manager-interview-83d0af) ## Community answers Six community answers are listed. Key responses include: - **Vikas T.** said the content contained too much discussion and not enough concrete information about the person being interviewed. - **Anusha R. — updated August 28, 2024.** Anusha identified herself as the person in the video and explained that she recorded it in 2021 for an engineering-manager course aimed at frontline managers, not as a mock interview. She said that interview questions she has typically received include: - “How do you manage high performers? Give me an example.” - “Tell me about a time when you had to manage poor performance.” She said both can be answered using the STAR format and suggested that interview content should reflect the relationship-oriented, two-way nature of interviews. - **lynx** advised using the video as an example of how not to answer because it did not provide concrete examples. - **dreamingincode** similarly said strong interviewing requires specific examples rather than generalizations. - **toast12** described coaching as beginning with each person’s career goals, including short-term goals over a 2–5 year horizon. Suggested actions include gathering individual feedback, supporting moves into product or people management, offering a temporary management opportunity with a possible return to the individual-contributor path, reviewing current work for strengths and weaknesses, and choosing training, coaching, or mentoring together. ## Related questions - [As a PM, how do you work with your engineering team?](https://www.aced.io/questions/5865/how-do-you-work-with-engineering) - [How do you set goals for your engineering team?](https://www.aced.io/questions/1585/setting-goals-engineering-team) - [How do you prioritize features for your engineering team?](https://www.aced.io/questions/1688/prioritize-features-engineering-team) ## Related courses ### [Engineering Management Interview Prep](https://www.aced.io/courses/engineering-management) Prepare for engineering-manager roles at Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, and other companies with mock interviews, frameworks, and senior-candidate advice covering system design, people management, project retrospectives, and behavioral interviews. ### [System Design Interviews](https://www.aced.io/courses/system-design-interviews) Practice product, infrastructure, and AI system-design questions with video examples, written breakdowns, reference patterns, and mock interviews featuring senior engineers and managers. 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