From the course: Job Interview Tips for Software Engineers
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Candidate answer and feedback
From the course: Job Interview Tips for Software Engineers
Candidate answer and feedback
- [Instructor] Let's check out a sample response to this question, and then I'll be right back with some thoughts and feedback. - I think of a manager as a multi-dimensional leader, part coach, part mentor. As a mentor, a manager would help guide me, and build my skills. As a coach, their responsibility is to give me candid feedback, and to help me achieve aggressive goals. My job is to be open about my interests, inquisitive about what makes the team successful, and then to work with the manager to find projects that will help both sides win. This would be a relationship fueled by trust and transparency, and of course, it depends on the company, the work culture, how accessible the manager is, the stage of a project, the uniqueness of a specific situation. Now, I may have more brass tacks awareness than my manager, and my manager might be more organizationally connected, on an ongoing basis, I would keep my manager updated…
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