Value A

EM Responsibility

  • Building Team
    • Org design
      • Relocate Talent
      • Take into account with Business Needs
      • Team Composition, Seniority, skills, location, personality
    • Staffing
      • Managing open headcount
      • Influencing resources allocation
      • Making hiring decision
  • Performance
    • Expectation & Feedback
      • Setting aggressive but achievable goals for individuals
      • Measure as high standards
      • Holding people accountable for achieving goals
      • Providing feedback based on where they stand
    • Team Performance
      • Setting & Managing goals and commitment for the team as a whole
    • Existing
      • Develop strategy through mis-located talent
      • Off-board under-performer
  • Growth & Promotion
    • Growing Skill
      • Identify Skill gaps in the team
      • Communicate to the individual directly
      • Imply person expertise to enhance to direct responsibilities to deliver results
    • Promotion
      • Understand how promotion works
      • Maintain a fair process for promoting people
  • Driving Impact
    • Removing obstacles
      • Be able to remove blockers from team’s path with decisive actions
      • Strong decision-making
      • Allowing meeting milestone
      • Thrive in new opportunity spaces
    • Motivating People
      • Understand what motivate people
      • Take into account each individual style
      • Situational context
      • A toolkit of motivating strategy
      • Influencing, motivating, rewarding, performing and achievement

Values B

  • Mission Driven
    • Previous organisation & environment
      • What is their mission, goals, values?
      • How do you see yourself align to them?
      • Any areas that you didn’t align to or disagree with?
    • Riot Values
      • Your understanding about Riot Values & Missions
      • How do you feel you can play a role to achieve them?
    • Motivation
      • Reason why you want to be with Riot & Gaming Industry
      • Passion for the role
  • Being resilient, cultivating innovation, and driving results
    • You have plan for and overcome significant obstacles while maintaining optimism and focus
    • You leverage calculated risk, and creative models & methods to achieve success against challenging goals
  • To be success in this round
    • Who We Are section of Riot
      • Understand our Missions, and Values
    • Optimism, tenacity, intuitiveness
      • Questions around working with others
      • Looking how to maintain optimism in situations
      • Where there are being examples around creative thinking
    • Driving results
      • Achieving goals
      • Goal setting
      • Objectives, KPIs

Engineering Technical Leadership

  • Craft Leadership
    • How you are able to be a difference maker in the team
    • Demonstrate success of being an autonomous contributor
    • How you able to set technical direction
    • How you be a key participant in the Tech community
    • How you drive alignment through the organisation, and act as a mentor, help to grow other engineers and technical leaders
  • Product Sense & Deliver Method
    • Prioritisation
    • Trade-offs
    • Making improvement to team processes
    • How you influence product decisions
    • How you look at prioritisation
    • Situations where you think about the customer and end user, anything you do from a technical stand point

Manager Collaboration & Communication

  • Team work, Building Trust, Value Differences
    • How to build trust, and collaborate with these around you
    • How you seek opportunities to assist others’ needs
    • Operate with transparency
    • When making important decisions
      • you inclusive by inviting others into discussions
      • actively listen to others
      • find solutions that works well for a collective team
      • willing to make reasonable concessions for the benefits of team goals
  • Belonging, De-escalating, Team Health
    • As an effective Engineering Manager,
      • You build a sense of camaraderie and belonging, despite differences from each member
      • You mindful and effective, and drive positive results
    • As a strong Engineer Manager,
      • how to effectively relief tension of difficult conversation,
      • how to coach direct reports to toward favourable outcomes
      • how to monitor carefully for burn-out, and guide direct reports for effective ways for re-charge

Subject Matter Expertise (Services in Data)

  • Challenge or scenario shared with Google Jamboard
  • A News feed delivery system for players
    • direction or guidance on what interviewer wants to achieve
    • 10 mins basic architect diagram
    • dig in, deeper into the understanding, the choice you’ve made, and talk through your design
  • Different strategy to cover to allow for deep knowledge and expertise to show case
    • Auto scaling
    • Service optimisation
    • Shading
    • Database Scaling & Optimisation
    • Different category, such as Machine Learning
  • Customisation, Modification or Changing requirement
    • Understand the changes you may make
    • What would be the things that you want to think about, in terms of adapting the requirement changes
  • Overall Tips
    • Subject Matter Expertise around Data Engineering
    • Communication & Thought process
      • Clarify requirements to get more insights and information
      • Sharing your thought process
      • Effectively guide the interviewers on what you are creating, how you create it, and the choice you make,
      • Show case your thought process, not necessarily just to have the right answer solution