A senior engineering leadership interview guide specific to Monzo, focusing on key areas expected of candidates. It outlines crucial aspects of agile team and process management, covering Scrum, Kanban, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and technical debt management. Furthermore, it details essential engineering metrics, including DORA and other team performance indicators like cycle time and bug rate. A significant portion is dedicated to people management and growth, exploring career development frameworks, effective one-on-one meetings, the Radical Candor feedback model, strategies for handling low performance, and fostering psychological safety. The guide also addresses hiring, onboarding, and retention best practices, with a focus on structured interviews, comprehensive onboarding plans, and drivers of engineer retention. Finally, it explores technical strategy and cross-team alignment, including building and communicating a technical vision, architectural decision-making processes, and stakeholder management. The guide concludes with Monzo-specific information, such as their microservices architecture, reasons for using Go, their Kubernetes implementation, and insights gleaned from their engineering blog, all to aid interview preparation.