Engineering Manager I & II Tests

Hire the right person with the Engineering Manager I & II Tests and identify candidates who have the right leadership, team and math skills.   Pre-employment testing for your engineering management candidates ensures top-notch performance from your design teams.

Manager 1 Purpose

The Engineering Manager I Test identifies candidates with the leadership qualities necessary to direct the work of others, make decisions efficiently and in an ethical manner, stay on top of work in the department, promote a service-minded organizational culture and motivate employees.

Manager 2 Purpose

The Engineering Manager II Test identifies candidates with the leadership qualities necessary to direct the work of others, make decisions efficiently and in an ethical manner, stay on top of work in their department, promote a service-minded organizational culture, and motivate employees and includes the Engineering / Technical Math Test for manufacturing environments.

What It’s Best Used For

• Hiring and Promoting Engineering Leaders: Screening external applicants or benchmarking internal staff for critical leadership roles like Engineering Managers, Department Directors, and Design Team Supervisors.
• Assessing Ethical Decision-Making: Evaluating a candidate’s integrity, operational ethics, and default judgment patterns to ensure they make efficient, honest decisions under pressure.
• Evaluating Cognitive and Mechanical Aptitude: Measuring fluid problem-solving capabilities using an equal mix of text-based, spatial-abstract, and mathematical logic, paired with physical mechanical reasoning.
• Vetting Written Communication and Logic: Reviewing candidates’ actual typed responses to 35 open-ended workplace prompts to gauge their professional composure and problem-handling approach.
• Cultivating a Service-Minded Culture: Pinpointing collaborative, supportive managers who know how to stay on top of department workflows while keeping frontline engineers productively motivated.
• Structuring In-Depth Executive Interviews: Using the instantly generated online scorecards—which highlight a candidate’s unique blind spots, open-ended answers, and tailored interview prompts—to run highly focused face-to-face evaluations.

About the Test

The Engineering Manager tests identify candidates with the leadership qualities necessary to direct the work of others, make decisions efficiently and in an ethical manner, stay on top of work in their department, promote a service-minded organizational culture, and motivate employees.

• A 20 minute test of mechanical reasoning
• 151-question untimed personality inventory
• 44 item untimed test of mental ability (equally divided among verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, and abstract reasoning questions)
• 35 open-ended statements to which the candidate must type in short answers.

The Engineering Manager II Test battery has four parts, and takes approximately two hours to complete:

• 20 minute test of mechanical reasoning
• 151 question untimed personality inventory
• 44 item untimed test of mental ability (divided among verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, and abstract reasoning questions)
• 35 open-ended statements to which the candidate must type in short answers

What the Report Gives You

A graphical display of scores of areas covered (see chart), explanation of aptitude results, list of strengths and developmental concerns, and suggested interview questions.

Testing Process

Online personality testing provides immediate reporting. Proctoring is desirable but not required.

Options

Contact us to learn how we can customize the test content for your hiring process or the way information is presented in the report to meet your specifications. We can also help you validate an assessment for your workforce or establish company-specific scoring.

Validity Information: Available upon request.

The Engineering Manager I Test Evaluates

The Engineering Manager II Test Evaluates