Engineering Manager Interview Experience - Toronto, Canada
March 30, 2021
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks.
- Initial discussion with the recruiter, followed up by a discussion with the hiring manager and another Engg Manager.
- Later, I had another round with 2 senior Engg Managers/Directors and then a round with the CTO and the hiring manager.
Questions
Management questions, a very frank discussion with a focus on trying to understand me as a person and my management approach.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Grafana Labs Engineering Manager role in Toronto, Ontario.
Success Rate
100%
Pass Rate
Grafana Labs's interview process for their Engineering Manager roles in Toronto, Ontario is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Grafana Labs's Engineering Manager interview process in Toronto, Ontario.
Grafana Labs Work Experiences
3.0
It was great until I got new management
Senior Fullstack Software Engineer • Former Employee
Toronto, ON
May 1, 2025
Pros: Good pay, a laptop, and travel.
Cons: New manager must've been his first time being handed a "gun". I was being given instructions from the top of the company, but my manager was upset that I wasn't contributing towards his responsibilities and instead of asking me to change focus, he put me in a performance review which, strangely, had me doing things not part of my job description and new to me.
Completion of the review's task was ultimately late by a day and I decided to quit after he told me that "it wouldn't look good". A kid with a gun.
2.0
Good work-life balance if you don't count on-calls
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
December 16, 2025
Pros: Decent salary, lot of talented people, 30 days of PTO, fun projects.
Cons: Not the best people get raises or promotions, but the ones who speak the loudest.
IPO hungry, "we're all in sales", changing priorities, management has very little clues about technical challenges.
5.0
nice
Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, NY
November 29, 2022
Pros: There is good pay, nice employees, and good food.
Cons: Genuinely have nothing bad to say.
- 3.0It was great until I got new managementSenior Fullstack Software Engineer • Former EmployeeToronto, ONMay 1, 2025Pros: Good pay, a laptop, and travel.Cons: New manager must've been his first time being handed a "gun". I was being given instructions from the top of the company, but my manager was upset that I wasn't contributing towards his responsibilities and instead of asking me to change focus, he put me in a performance review which, strangely, had me doing things not part of my job description and new to me. Completion of the review's task was ultimately late by a day and I decided to quit after he told me that "it wouldn't look good". A kid with a gun.
- 2.0Good work-life balance if you don't count on-callsSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeDecember 16, 2025Pros: Decent salary, lot of talented people, 30 days of PTO, fun projects.Cons: Not the best people get raises or promotions, but the ones who speak the loudest. IPO hungry, "we're all in sales", changing priorities, management has very little clues about technical challenges.
- 5.0niceSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, NYNovember 29, 2022Pros: There is good pay, nice employees, and good food.Cons: Genuinely have nothing bad to say.
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