EM Interview : What is your management style
What is your management style ?
Why are they asking this question ?
- They are trying to find out if you are a good fit to the style of their org. May be their org is top down, consensus driven, people driven, etc.
How not to answer this question ?
- If you straight away answer this question with your current style, you may get eliminated if it is not a match. This is quite likely as your current org may be different from their situation
How to answer it ?
- Uplevel the question first. What does management style enable ? It enables a strong functional team.
- Ask what is the goal of management ? Its like a soccer coach who builds a strong team that can win matches against different types of opponents. Pick up the physical queues, that the interviewer agrees to that hypothesis. Now, you can say, based on the opponent, team, season, the coach has to change the management style/strategy so that it is best suited to the job at hand. Now, you can answer in the context of your previous org, what your management style was.
Similar dissection of questions :
- Do you like to code as a manager ?
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