Senior Release Manager Interview Experience - Honolulu District, Hawaii
Process
The process starts with a recruiter phone screen, where they'll ask about your experience and how you fit into the role. Next is the hiring manager, who will inquire about your background, your experience with releases, and then ask non-job-related questions. For example, "How would you update 1.5 million unique users' phone numbers to a different format if each user has a file that recorded that phone entry?"
Which tech company, other than Life360, would actually have this boss ask a release manager to make that change in production? It makes me, as a candidate, question if this company actually cares about quality or their customers to even allow such a change.
Anyway, it was a strange interview for a Senior Release Manager. It seems that boss is looking to hire a developer rather than a release manager.
Questions
Q: Are you okay with working 5 PM to 9 PM PST, Monday to Friday, and then working 4 additional hours at your own convenience?
Q: Technically, this is NOT a manager role (but our JD is misleading). You won't have any direct reports and you will be strictly an IC. Are you okay with that?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Life360 Senior Release Manager role in Honolulu District, Hawaii.
Success Rate
Life360's interview process for their Senior Release Manager roles in Honolulu District, Hawaii is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Life360's Senior Release Manager interview process in Honolulu District, Hawaii.
Life360 Work Experiences
- 1.0Leadership does not want feedbackEngineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CASeptember 4, 2020Pros: Good teammates and collaboration among different teamsCons: Little to no leadership or guidance.
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- 5.0Challenging work, but great company with growth potentialSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, CAFebruary 15, 2020Pros: - The work is incredibly impactful. Hearing stories from our users about how we helped them with crash detection is very rewarding, and you can't get that at very many other places. - Strong recent leadership hires. With top-brass CTO, Mobile and Back-end leadership, I have been finding no shortage of mentorship opportunities. And this is building trust with leadership that we are going to a more diverse, effective team. - Massive scale and interesting tech. Our servers handle something like 6.1 billion API requests every day, and we have best-in-class location and driving technology on iOS and Android platforms.Cons: - As others have mentioned, recent company indecisiveness is real. The vision is strong (Facebook for Families), strategy is sound, but in the last few months there have been a lot of direction shifts. This can wear on the team. That said, we are moving in the right direction and things are starting to feel more stable. - Cramped office space. Every employee gets a sit-stand desk which is great, but with all the recent hiring we are starting to feel congested.
