Zapier
Manager
Lead two engineering teams and stand up Zapier's India engineering site, AI-native by default
Interview for Zapier's Senior Engineering Manager role leading the Enterprise Integrations org in India — a manager-of-managers scope covering two teams (roughly 8-10 engineers) plus acting as the founding, most senior engineering leader on the ground in India. Expect deep people-leadership questions (coaching senior/staff ICs, performance management, growing ICs into tech leads and managers), site-building questions (hiring strategy, ramping new hires, local culture), and a distinctive focus on driving AI-native engineering practices and using AI tools to measurably improve delivery.
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What this interview tests
- Manager-of-managers / multi-team people leadership
- Performance management end-to-end: coaching, feedback, promotions, PIPs
- Building a site/founding engineering presence (hiring strategy, ramp, local culture)
- Driving AI-native engineering adoption and measuring its impact
- Technical credibility: architecture, design reviews, integrations/auth/distributed systems
- Cross-functional partnership with Product, Design, Customer Success, Sales
Common question themes
Tell me about leading through other leaders or tech leads rather than managing ICs directly
Describe a performance management cycle you ran, including a difficult conversation or PIP
How have you grown an IC into a tech lead, or a manager into a senior manager
What concrete AI tools/workflows have you introduced to an engineering team, and what was the measured impact
How would you build engineering culture and hiring pipeline as the most senior person on the ground in a new site/region
Walk me through an architectural decision or design review you drove for a critical, customer-facing system
How do you define and track team health metrics like delivery predictability and incident load
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