A recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn.

There were two interviews, booked for 45 minutes each.

1. Interview with a team member, focusing on current work.

Experience: This interviewer started with, "I have gone through everything in your resume; tell me something you haven’t mentioned." I replied, "I would still walk you through the details." The rest of the questions were easy enough to answer if you had experience in Performance Testing, Tuning, Engineering, and Cloud Migrations.

Piece of advice: A resume shows highlights, not details. That's why there's a process called an interview to review more details about the highlights mentioned in the resume. Then, you keep the candidate engaged with their answers and explanations.

1. Interview with a Senior Manager from Infrastructure, focusing on current work, process implementation, and managerial responsibilities.

The interviewer started with a usual introduction and said, "I am looking for a Manager who will be responsible for Performance Testing, Tuning, and Cloud Migration." The rest of the questions focused on managerial challenges.

Piece of advice to the interviewer: Prepare and plan well before you start. When the position is for a Senior Manager, you should plan to ask more questions about Senior Manager and Leadership roles in handling activities and situations. If I were to become a Senior Manager and end up fixing code issues, then projects would never be completed.

Piece of advice for the candidate: Unlike me, just ask the interviewer if that’s the role you are being interviewed for.

Why would you choose GCP over AWS?

How would you plan the capacity for Private Cloud to GCP migrations?

What would you do with Story Points if we realized that we burned more than calculated? Would you use them to plan better for the next PI?

How do you handle ad-hoc workloads in a PI without affecting existing projects' deadlines?

How would your company feel if you resigned?