TPM Interview Prep

Land your dream program management role at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and other top companies. Learn from mock interviews, frameworks, and advice from senior candidates. Practice system design, program sense, cross-functional projects, behavioral interviews and more.

Taught by 15+ TPMs and Leaders at Google, Meta, and more

Stephen CognettaProduct Manager, Google, Exponent Co-founder

Hozefa JodiawallaEngineering Manager, Meta, Maven Clinic

Kevin WeiSenior Product Manager, Amazon

S.V.Engineering Leader, Apple

Jacob SimonSoftware Engineer, Dropbox, Exponent Co-founder

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What you'll find in these courses

5 courses

21 hours

TPM Interviewing Introduction

3 lessons

This course covers the overview of technical program management interviewing, with lessons on TPM interview structure and a glossary.

Welcome to the Exponent TPM Course!Free

TPM Glossary

Technical Program Manager (TPM) Interview Structure

System Design Interviews

10 modules

50 lessons

32 videos

Learn how to answer system design questions with in-depth video examples and lessons that teach the fundamental concepts of scalable systems. Put your knowledge to the test with our self-guided exercises, or watch how engineers and managers answer these questions themselves.

Introduction to the System Design InterviewFree

How to Answer System Design Interview Questions

System Design Principles

Rubric for System Design Interviews

System Design Glossary

Top Engineering Blogs

Web Protocol Questions

Asynchronous Processing

Caching

Encryption

Authentication and Authorization

Cloud Architecture

CDNs

Design Facebook MessengerFree

Design a Metrics and Logging Service

Design Dropbox

Design App that Downloads User Data

Design an Application Performance Monitoring System

Design a Parking Garage

Design the Payment System for the Amazon Kindle

Design a Hotel Booking Service

Design Zillow

Design a Vending Machine

Design Ticketmaster

Design a Key Value Store

Design a Rate Limiter

Design a Distributed Message Queue

Design a URL Shortener

Design Typeahead for Search Box

Design a Distributed LRU Cache

Program Sense Questions

2 modules

7 lessons

3 videos

Program sense questions are the bread and butter of program management. They assess your ability to create, operate, and even shut-down existing programs. In this course, we outline what you need to know to ace the program sense interview.

How to Answer Program Sense Interview Questions

Tips for Program Sense Questions

Initiating a New Program

End-to-End Program Management

Decide if Agile Methodology is Suitable

Biggest Program Risk

Describe a Process You've Created

Cross-functional TPM Interviews

2 modules

10 lessons

2 videos

Being a TPM is all about cross-functional relationships, which is why it makes sense that these questions will often come up in your interviews. Here's how to ace them.

Introduction to TPM Cross-Functional Questions

How to Answer Questions about Persuading Cross-functional Team Members

Tips for Acing Questions on Cross-Functional Relationships

The STAR Framework

Behavioral Interviews: Creating Your Story Bank

How would TPMs start working with a new product manager?

Stakeholder Buy-In

Difficult Technical and People Challenges

Tell me about a time you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it?

Technical Behavioral Mock Interview

Interview Tips & Frameworks

2 modules

9 lessons

9 videos

All great product people know how to empathize and relate to users. These questions test for a candidate's user empathy and insight abilities.

How to Pause

Discussing Tradeoffs

How To Check In With Interviewers

Acing Phone Interviews

How To Get Unstuck

What To Do Before an Interview

Using the WhiteboardFree

Framework: Broad Then Deep

Framework: The Triangle Method

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Question database and community answers Get full access to our database of 3,000+ verified interview questions and browse by company, role, or interview stage. Post your answers and get community feedback.

Access all our company interview guides We'll walk you step-by-step through every part of the interview process, from the recruiting phone screen through the technical screen.

Join our members-only Slack community Connect with your peers in our 25,000-member strong Slack community. Ask questions, practice interviews, and make connections at top tech companies.

Mock interviews with AI and peers Practice real interview questions with unlimited mock interviews, including early access to our new AI interviewer.

Frequently asked questions

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Full access to our PM interview course and 100+ other interview prep courses and modules.

Hundreds of real PM interview questions, answers, and walkthroughs

Self-paced video lessons with expert interview answer frameworks

Access to PM interview rubrics and sample answers for common interview types

Unlimited access to peer-to-peer mock interviews for product sense, behavioral, and more.

Access to AI tools for mock interview feedback

A complete library of company-specific PM interview guides

Membership in our private Slack community
: The Exponent Slack Channel is a private community of thousands of other Exponent members. Our Slack Channel has relevant, fresh information on acing interviews and recent interview experiences shared by candidates like yourself.
: Yes! You can purchase coaching for interview prep and career coaching by visiting https://www.tryexponent.com/coaching.
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