A useful division of leadership work depends on a working partnership, not only a diagram of titles.
What to look for
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Identify the people responsibilities that need sustained attention.
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Discuss how the leadership pair will handle disagreement.
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Deliberately transfer responsibilities rather than leaving the old owner in every loop.
Keep in mind
A historical company account with an unusually demanding interview process. Its value is the reasoning about partnership, not a hiring script to copy.
Try this next
With your engineering leadership partner, list the decisions each of you owns and walk through one disagreement using that agreement.
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