Engineering Manager Interview Roadmap

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This roadmap is your comprehensive companion to navigating the multifaceted landscape of a FAANG Engineering Manager interview. It goes beyond traditional coding questions, encompassing every critical dimension of the role—people leadership, team management, project execution, system design, communication, and stakeholder collaboration. Whether you’re transitioning from an individual contributor role or stepping up to a more strategic leadership position, this roadmap equips you with the frameworks, insights, and actionable strategies needed to excel in high-stakes interviews with top-tier companies like Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. By focusing on both the technical and interpersonal competencies, this roadmap ensures you’ll be ready to tackle in-depth system design sessions, present thoughtful approaches to team performance challenges, and engage in compelling leadership discussions. Ultimately, you’ll gain the confidence to navigate the complexities of the engineering manager role at the world’s most influential tech organizations.

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Learning Objectives

Holistic Preparation: Understand the full spectrum of an engineering manager interview—from technical system design and architecture reviews to leadership case studies and cultural fit conversations.

Technical Mastery: Hone your ability to break down complex system design problems, reason about scalability and reliability, and discuss architectural trade-offs—key skills for technical credibility at FAANG companies.

Leadership and Communication: Learn strategies for demonstrating people management skills, fostering team cohesion, driving results, and effectively communicating technical vision to both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Behavioral Proficiency: Gain insights into handling situational and behavioral questions that reflect real-world challenges—managing conflicts, giving feedback, promoting diversity and inclusion, and inspiring team excellence.

Strategic Thinking: Develop the mindset to approach interviews not just as tests of knowledge, but as opportunities to convey strategic thinking, cross-functional collaboration abilities, and long-term vision alignment.

Confidence and Polish: Learn best practices for presenting your experience, refining your personal pitch, and projecting confidence and authenticity—crucial elements that set great engineering managers apart.

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• 65 Chapters • 486 Lessons

Grokking the Engineering Manager Coding Interview

Your ultimate guide to successfully acing Engineering Manager coding interviews.

• 11 Chapters • 119 Lessons

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Introduction

1 lesson

Course Overview

Array

12 lessons

Introduction to Arrays

Arrays in Different Programming Languages

Running Sum of 1d Array (easy)

Solution: Running Sum of 1d Array

Find the Highest Altitude (easy)

Solution: Find the Highest Altitude

Array Transformation (easy)

Solution: Array Transformation

Minimum Increment to Make Array Unique (medium)

Solution: Minimum Increment to Make Array Unique

Maximum Gap (medium)

Solution: Maximum Gap

Hash Table (aka Hashmap or Dictionary)

13 lessons

Introduction to Hashing

Introduction to Hash Tables

Issues with Hash Tables

First Non-repeating Character (easy)

Solution: First Non-repeating Character (easy)

Largest Unique Number (easy)

Solution: Largest Unique Number (easy)

Subarray Sum Equals K (medium)

Solution: Subarray Sum Equals K

Least Number of Unique Integers after K Removals (medium)

Solution: Least Number of Unique Integers after K Removals

Minimum Number of Steps to Make Two Strings Anagram (medium)

Solution: Minimum Number of Steps to Make Two Strings Anagram

Stack

14 lessons

Introduction to Stack

Operations on Stack

Implementing Stack Data Structure

Applications of Stack

Balanced Parentheses (easy)

Solution: Balanced Parentheses

Reverse a String (easy)

Solution: Reverse a String

Decimal to Binary Conversion (medium)

Solution: Decimal to Binary Conversion

Daily Temperatures (medium)

Solution: Daily Temperatures

Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation (medium)

Solution: Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation

Queue

14 lessons

Introduction to Queues

Working with Simple Queues

Diving Deeper – Circular Queues and Deques

Applications and Advanced Concepts

Reverse a Queue (easy)

Solution: Reverse a Queue

Implement Stack using Queues (easy)

Solution: Implement Stack using Queues

Zigzag Iterator (medium)

Solution: Zigzag Iterator

Continuous Subarrays (medium)

Solution: Continuous Subarrays

Sum of Subarray Minimums (medium)

Solution: Sum of Subarray Minimums

HashSet

11 lessons

Introduction to HashSets

Counting Elements (easy)

Solution: Counting Elements

Jewels and Stones (easy)

Solution: Jewels and Stones

Unique Number of Occurrences (easy)

Solution: Unique Number of Occurrences (easy)

Determine if Two Strings Are Close (medium)

Solution: Determine if Two Strings Are Close

Longest Consecutive Sequence (medium)

Solution: Longest Consecutive Sequence

Two Pointers Pattern

11 lessons

Introduction to Two Pointers Pattern

Squaring a Sorted Array (easy)

Solution: Squaring a Sorted Array

Triplet Sum to Zero (medium)

Solution: Triplet Sum to Zero

Quadruple Sum to Target (medium)

Solution: Quadruple Sum to Target

Dutch National Flag Problem (medium)

Solution: Dutch National Flag Problem

Triplets with Smaller Sum (medium)

Solution: Triplets with Smaller Sum

Sliding Window Pattern

9 lessons

Introduction to Sliding Window Pattern

Smallest Subarray With a Greater Sum (easy)

Solution: Smallest Subarray With a Greater Sum

Longest Substring with K Distinct Characters (medium)

Solution: Longest Substring with K Distinct Characters

Longest Substring with Same Letters after Replacement (hard)

Solution: Longest Substring with Same Letters after Replacement

Smallest Window containing Substring (hard)

Solution: Smallest Window containing Substring

Tree BFS/DFS Pattern

12 lessons

Introduction to Tree Breadth First Search Pattern

Introduction to Tree Depth First Search Pattern

All Paths for a Sum (medium)

Solution: All Paths for a Sum

Path With Given Sequence (medium)

Solution: Path With Given Sequence

Tree Diameter (medium)

Solution: Tree Diameter

All Nodes Distance K in Binary Tree (medium)

Solution: All Nodes Distance K in Binary Tree

Even Odd Tree (medium)

Solution: Even Odd Tree

10.

Island (Matrix Traversal) Pattern

11 lessons

Introduction to Island Pattern

Number of Islands (easy)

Solution: Number of Islands

Biggest Island (easy)

Solution: Biggest Island

Number of Closed Islands (easy)

Solution: Number of Closed Islands

Walls and Gates (medium)

Solution: Walls and Gates

Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination (hard)

Solution: Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination

11.

Greedy Algorithm Pattern

11 lessons

Introduction to Greedy Algorithm

Valid Palindrome II (easy)

Solution: Valid Palindrome II

Maximum Length of Pair Chain (medium)

Solution: Maximum Length of Pair Chain

Remove Duplicate Letters (medium)

Solution: Remove Duplicate Letters

Largest Palindromic Number (medium)

Solution: Largest Palindromic Number

Meeting Rooms II (medium)

Solution: Meeting Rooms II

Grokking the System Design Interview

Ace your system design interview with the original Grokking the System Design Interview course by Design Gurus – ex-FAANG hiring managers. With 30K+ 5★ reviews, this course will help you master scalability, distributed systems, and more.

• 5 Chapters • 65 Lessons

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