. If a very talented Software Engineer on your team kept questioning your decisions, what would you do? How would you address the individual? . What techniques would you choose to motivate disengaged employees? . How would you deal with disagreements related to system requirements between senior managers? . What advice would you give to a new team member? What's the best way to onboard a new hire? . How would you negotiate a bigger budget for your team? Role-specific questions . How regularly do you schedule meetings with your team members? . What metrics do you use to monitor your team's performance? . What are the first things you would check in a legacy system that has frequent downtime? . What are some alternate ways to store data other than a relational database and when would you choose to use them? . What are the pros and cons of cloud systems