Amazon Technical Program Manager Interview Questions

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  • "I recently led the development and implementation of a data analytics platform tailored for credit unions and mortgage companies, which was suffering from fragmented systems, inconsistent data fields across LOS platforms, and outdated reporting practices. Here's how I managed the full lifecycle: ✅ Initiation / Discovery Conducted executive interviews across five financial institutions to understand reporting and visibility gaps. Shadowed loan officers and underwriters"

    Simran S. - "I recently led the development and implementation of a data analytics platform tailored for credit unions and mortgage companies, which was suffering from fragmented systems, inconsistent data fields across LOS platforms, and outdated reporting practices. Here's how I managed the full lifecycle: ✅ Initiation / Discovery Conducted executive interviews across five financial institutions to understand reporting and visibility gaps. Shadowed loan officers and underwriters"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "Found bug will not impact on the new requirements, if the engineering team aware of the source of the bug and the severity, than it can easily be handled and regression test to perform for a quality check. The new requirement should be equally prioritize for groom and start creating task and team to work on it. Finally based on the severity of the bug you can shuffle the resources between these items."

    Jagat mohan B. - "Found bug will not impact on the new requirements, if the engineering team aware of the source of the bug and the severity, than it can easily be handled and regression test to perform for a quality check. The new requirement should be equally prioritize for groom and start creating task and team to work on it. Finally based on the severity of the bug you can shuffle the resources between these items."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
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    "Authentication verifies "Who you are." Authorization determines "What you can do." Authentication establishes identity, while authorization specifies the actions or resources a user or entity is allowed to access or perform."

    Surbhi A. - "Authentication verifies "Who you are." Authorization determines "What you can do." Authentication establishes identity, while authorization specifies the actions or resources a user or entity is allowed to access or perform."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Technical
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    "We will not always have all the required data to make a decision quickly. We need to work with ambiguity effectively by tying up the available facts with intuition."

    Sankar S. - "We will not always have all the required data to make a decision quickly. We need to work with ambiguity effectively by tying up the available facts with intuition."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had originally approved problem with different design which was correct approach that time. But as the project progressed that approach needed revision. Emphasized on facts why original approach was taken with points. Also focused tail end of discussion on learnings out of situation and how you end up deploying better solution from that learning."

    Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had originally approved problem with different design which was correct approach that time. But as the project progressed that approach needed revision. Emphasized on facts why original approach was taken with points. Also focused tail end of discussion on learnings out of situation and how you end up deploying better solution from that learning."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "During my internship at Quantiva Solutions, I was leading a small team of fellow interns on a data visualization project. I was very focused on meeting the deadline and often pushed the team to keep moving quickly through tasks. About midway through the project, one of my teammates pulled me aside and said that while they appreciated my organization, they felt I wasn’t giving enough space for others to contribute ideas and that it made the collaboration feel more task-driven than team-oriented."

    Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Quantiva Solutions, I was leading a small team of fellow interns on a data visualization project. I was very focused on meeting the deadline and often pushed the team to keep moving quickly through tasks. About midway through the project, one of my teammates pulled me aside and said that while they appreciated my organization, they felt I wasn’t giving enough space for others to contribute ideas and that it made the collaboration feel more task-driven than team-oriented."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "Provided an example from my work history where I asked to move the Go-live date to prevent launch date failure."

    Namu - "Provided an example from my work history where I asked to move the Go-live date to prevent launch date failure."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "I followed STAR format"

    Shashikant A. - "I followed STAR format"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    Video answer for 'Describe an experience working in a cross-functional team.'
    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."

    Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "I set the context by stating that this specific program is not complex for technical reasons, but for the nature of how it was set up. Spoke about a scenario where one of the programs was at risk due security and legal compliance's. And how did I carry that program forward."

    Anonymous Mockingbird - "I set the context by stating that this specific program is not complex for technical reasons, but for the nature of how it was set up. Spoke about a scenario where one of the programs was at risk due security and legal compliance's. And how did I carry that program forward."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    Video answer for 'Design Uber Eats.'
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    "basic drew the diagram"

    Aswath B. - "basic drew the diagram"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    System Design
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    "Clarifying my assumptions first, i.e. "Technical contributions are not just writing or reviewing code". Answer : My contributions to any program I lead as a TPM are as follows : Inputs towards design, architecture review, mapping requirements to the proposed design, reviewing the implementation strategy w.r.t scalable solution, Writing core user-centric test scenarios, Validating proposed design vs implementation estimates vs initial planning. etc... Example : Situation: We are a"

    DM - "Clarifying my assumptions first, i.e. "Technical contributions are not just writing or reviewing code". Answer : My contributions to any program I lead as a TPM are as follows : Inputs towards design, architecture review, mapping requirements to the proposed design, reviewing the implementation strategy w.r.t scalable solution, Writing core user-centric test scenarios, Validating proposed design vs implementation estimates vs initial planning. etc... Example : Situation: We are a"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Technical
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    "Clarifying Questions Who are we? Traditional elevator company or a new age tech startup Assumption: New age tech based elevator company Any constraints: Budget, etc. Assumption: No What kind of a skyscraper building: Assumption: Commercial. Includes office spaces as well as others Any particular goal with respect to building this elevator? Design best in class elevator providing the best user experience for passengers User needs - Users have the following needs when"

    Shasleen I. - "Clarifying Questions Who are we? Traditional elevator company or a new age tech startup Assumption: New age tech based elevator company Any constraints: Budget, etc. Assumption: No What kind of a skyscraper building: Assumption: Commercial. Includes office spaces as well as others Any particular goal with respect to building this elevator? Design best in class elevator providing the best user experience for passengers User needs - Users have the following needs when"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Product Design
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    "A few months ago I joined a micro-services platform engineering team as their manager, at that time my team was struggling to deliver towards an upcoming production deadline for a customer facing product. Production date had been moved 5 times already and there were about 40% of product features which were remaining to be tested and signed off to move to production . I was made responsible to deliver the release of this product within the deadline and turnaround the software delivery throughput."

    Shuchi A. - "A few months ago I joined a micro-services platform engineering team as their manager, at that time my team was struggling to deliver towards an upcoming production deadline for a customer facing product. Production date had been moved 5 times already and there were about 40% of product features which were remaining to be tested and signed off to move to production . I was made responsible to deliver the release of this product within the deadline and turnaround the software delivery throughput."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    Behavioral
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    "My Answer. Please let me know your feedback. I have led many projects throughout my career. So, whenever I lead the project, I first try to clarify the goals and values delivered. For example, I was in charge of Data Analytics projects at my employment at a Startup. The team’s goal was launching the MVP. First, I discussed with the CEO to define the clear goal and scope for each of the projects. Next, I identified all the key stakeholders and received their inputs on the project's different a"

    Balaji G. - "My Answer. Please let me know your feedback. I have led many projects throughout my career. So, whenever I lead the project, I first try to clarify the goals and values delivered. For example, I was in charge of Data Analytics projects at my employment at a Startup. The team’s goal was launching the MVP. First, I discussed with the CEO to define the clear goal and scope for each of the projects. Next, I identified all the key stakeholders and received their inputs on the project's different a"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    Technical Program Manager
    Data Analysis
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  • "The DNS server of the site URL can identify the source of the traffic via GeoIP and redirect it to the Amazon services closest to that location. The load balancer, installed before the web server, can manage the load and redirect traffic to redundant services."

    Beth S. - "The DNS server of the site URL can identify the source of the traffic via GeoIP and redirect it to the Amazon services closest to that location. The load balancer, installed before the web server, can manage the load and redirect traffic to redundant services."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    System Design
  • Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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