Corporate team lead promotion interview practice
The shift from individual contributor to team leader, covering delegation, feedback, priorities and stakeholder expectations. Practise the 6 questions the real interviewer asks with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- 15 minutes
- 6 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About this interview
A corporate team lead promotion interview tests whether a strong individual contributor is ready to deliver through other people. The panel looks for practical delegation, fair feedback, clear priorities and the confidence to manage peers and stakeholders without relying on job title alone.
How to prepare
- Identify examples where you coordinated work, coached a colleague or resolved competing priorities.
- Prepare a clear explanation of how your daily work would change after promotion.
- Practise a feedback conversation based on observed behaviour, its impact and agreed next steps.
- Think through how you would allocate work across different strengths and development needs.
- Plan how you would build trust with former peers during your first weeks as team lead.
Common mistakes
- Describing the promotion mainly as recognition for your own technical performance.
- Confusing delegation with passing on tasks and disappearing.
- Avoiding difficult feedback to preserve friendships with former peers.
- Promising every stakeholder that their work will be treated as the top priority.
What to expect
A real mock interview
6 questions the way the real interviewer asks, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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