How do you make sure other team members are following your plans?

How do you manage low performers?

How do you solve problems?

How do you stay focused on scalability?

In your opinion, what is the most effective way to evaluate the quality of your product or service to your internal /external customer? Give an example of a time when you used these measures to make a decision.

Provide an example of a time when someone on your team challenged you to think differently about a problem? What was the situation, how did you respond

Tell me about a business model decision or key technology decision or other important strategic decision you had to make for which there was not enough data or benchmarks.

tell me about a time when a member of your team contributed significantly to a project outside the scope of their role. What motivated you to encourage their participation?

Tell me about a time when you had a low performing individual on your team. How did you deliver feedback to this person? Did their performance improve or did they leave the organization?

Tell me about a time when you were able to remove a serious technical roadblock/barrier preventing your team from making progress?

Tell me about a time you came up with the vision for a (team, product, strategic initiative) when there wasn�t a guiding vision. What was it? How did you gain buy-in and drive execution?

Tell me about a time you uncovered a significant problem in your team. What was it and how did you communicate it to your manager and to your peers or other stakeholders?

Tell me about encouraging or enabling a member of your team to take big risk, and what was the resus

Tell me about someone that you hired that you thought was better than you in a number of areas. How did you add value to that person?

Tell me about the best mentorship / coaching story?

Tell me about time you had to develop a product/business model from scratch or when you dramatically changed one in a turnaround situation.

Tell me about your hiring process when you are hiring key positions such as direct reports.

Tell me how you have created organization (or customer) value through either increased revenue stream or lowering the cost structure.

Tell with about a time you had to make a really important decision without all the data?

Two Google Managers have a ten year history of not getting along, you are not only new to a program where they are both critical, but you are new to the organization. I want you to break this ten year strife, how do you do it?

What are the hardware trends in the data center space that excite you?

What are the most important components to consider when managing a large scale project?

What is more important budget or timeline and why?

What�s your secret to success in setting stretch goals for your team that are challenging, yet achievable? Tell me about a time you didn�t hit the right balance. How did you adjust?

When your direct reports are presenting a plan or issue to you, how do you know if the underlying assumptions are the correct ones? What actions do you take to validate assumptions or data?

Without any information, create a 180 day plan for me.

How do you build trust?

How did you balance the risk to the business with possible positive outcome for the organization and opportunity for learning for your direct report?

How did you balance the risk to the business with possible positive outcomes when giving an employee the opportunity to take on a new challenge?

How do you build NPI into your capacity planning model/plans?

How do you come up with ideas?

How do you conduct task planning?

How do you contribute to the overall product strategy?

Tell me about a time you needed to get information and work completed from somebody that was not responsive, what did you do?

Can you tell me about a time when a team member was not being as productive as you needed? What was the situation? What did you do? What was the result?

Give an example of when you had to support a business initiative with which you didn�t necessarily agree. How did you handle it?

How do you measure success?

Tell me about a time when you pushed back against a decision that negatively impacted your team. What was the issue and how did it turn out?

Tell me about a time when you took on something significant outside your area of responsibility. Why was it important? What was the outcome?

Tell me about an initiative you undertook because you saw that it could benefit the whole company or your customers, but wasn�t within any group�s individual responsibility so nothing was being done.

How do you hire for inclusivity?

Tell me about a time where you felt your team was not moving to action quickly enough. What did you do?

What steps do you take to ensure projects you complete get transitioned effectively to new owners? Give an example where you elected to re-engage on a project that you had already transitioned to someone else. What was the situation and why did you feel it was important to re-engage?

Tell me about a project you were managing where a dispute between stakeholders threatened the success of the project, and what did you do?

Tell me about a time when a project you were managing was running seriously behind schedule, and what did you do about it?

What are the top strategic issues you�ve had to face in your current role? What decisions did you end up making?

What changes have you implemented in your current department to meet the needs of your customers? What has been the result?

Example when someone on your team challenged you to think differently about a problem? What was the situation, how did you respond?

Describe a time when your team was unable to achieve a goal or milestone but the information gathered during the project enabled future success.

Give an example of a mission or goal you didn�t think was achievable. What was it and how did you help your team try to achieve it? Were you successful in the end?

How do you ensure your team stays connected to the company vision and the bigger picture?

Tell me about a time your team�s goals were out of alignment with another team on which you relied to attain a key resource. How did you work with the other team? Were you able to achieve your goals?

How do you ensure you are focusing on the right deliverables when you have several competing priorities?

How do you seek out feedback on your team�s performance? Give a specific example of how you used feedback you received on your team to drive improvement.

How do you draw new thinking and innovation out of your team? Give an example of how your approach led to a specific innovation.

Tell me about a time when you challenged your team to push the envelope and go beyond existing standards and expectations.

Tell me about a time when you have enabled your team/ a team member to implement a significant change or improvement.

Define a difficult and important task of a Leader?

How do you influence stakeholders to adopt a different strategy from one they have used in the past?

How do you influence when you are new to the team and the organization?

How do you know the data is right?

How do you lead teams that are globally distributed?

How do you work with a combative skip lead? In the case of Google, this would be a VP or higher?

How have you encouraged the learning and development of your team?

Tell me about a time a member of your team made a bad mistake and how you owned and protected them from taking the blame?

Tell me about a time someone recommended a new tool and why you decided to enhance an existing tool over going with a new one?

Tell me about a time you took a big risk � what was the risk, how did you decide to do it and what was the outcome?

Tell me about a time your analysis uncovered a critical insight that helped a program have exceptional success?

What methods have you used to gain commitment from your team?

When creating a roadmap, what are the three most important items?

You have one minute to present to the leadership team, what do you focus on?

Your six months into a year long program and a new technology comes out that will produce a much better result, but in order to implement it, you would need to start the program over, what do you do?

As a manager, how do you stay connected to the details while focusing on the strategic, bigger picture issues?

Describe the process you go through to set specific targets to improve critical areas of your work/team. Please refer to a specific example.

Example when someone on your team challenged you to think differently about a problem? What was the situation, how did you respond

Give a specific example of where you realized your team had not been as effective as it could have. What feedback mechanisms do you use?

Give an example of a time when you challenged your team to come up with more efficient solution or process. What drove the request? How did you help?

Give me an example of someone who was promoted one or two levels up in the organization � not just because they were a star who would naturally rise, but due to your development/coaching efforts.

How do you determine when to award or ask for additional resources? What criteria do you use for making the call?

How do you empower your employees?

How do you ensure you are focusing on the right deliverables when you have several competing priorities?

How do you ensure your team stays connected to the company vision and the bigger picture?

How do you establish best practices?