CTO | Must have interview questions

What's difficult about your job?

Which application would you have been proud to have created and why?

Would you put more time into ensuring all current systems run efficiently or researching new, innovative technologies?

Give an example of a challenging project you have completed. What were the obstacles, and how did you overcome them?

Explain me your vision of a VP Engineering position.

How would your former colleagues describe you?

Sum up your past X years of experience in 1 sentence.

What kind of manager are you?

What resources do you use to learn about technology trends?

How do you ensure data security and privacy in cloud computing?

What kind of software and hardware do you think a Marketing department needs?

How do you reduce risks of external attacks to the company network?

Si vous êtes recruté, quelles sont les premières choses que vous vérifieriez dans notre systèmes IT internes ?

Write an algorithm for traversing a binary search tree.

Scenario questions: What will you do in this case? How do you handle that?

What's are your favorite apps?

Walk me through the process preparing an IT department budget. How do you review expense requests, and where do you tend to cut costs? Why?

What guides and policies are needed to ensure technology is properly used?

If we asked you to create a company Internet usage policy for our employees, what key points you would include?

How do you measure system performance? What metrics indicate malfunctions?

What internal communication system would you implement at our company and why?

Describe me the last architecture that you developed?

What can you cite as principles of code quality?

What will you improve in our product / service?

Explain the evolution of the product of your current/previous company. Give me an example of a landmark decision that was made in the product strategy and your opinion of that decision

Explain to me the process of preparing a budget for the IT department. How do you review expense requests, and where do you tend to cut costs? Why do you do this?

Explain the product evolution of your current/previous company's product. Give me an example of a landmark decision taken as part of the product strategy and your opinion on this decision.

What would you do in the next 3 weeks if you are hired?

What difficulties did you met and how did you overcome them? What difficulties did you fail to overcome and why?

If you have all the teams at your disposal, what would you change?

Could you quote me and explain some design patterns?