Top Technical Program Manager Interview Questions

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

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

Pramod V. - "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"See full answer

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

Ramendra S. - "Step 1: Clarifying the Problem Scope Assumptions and basic system requirements: Cashless payments: The machine supports cashless payment methods like credit cards, mobile wallets, or NFC-based payments (e.g., Apple Pay, Google Pay). Multiple candy options: The machine offers different types of candy. Inventory management: The system tracks the stock of candy in real-time. User interface: A display screen for users to select the type of candy, make payments, an"See full answer

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

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

Scott S. - " Functional Requirements Content Ingestion\: Ingest news articles from various sources (websites, social media, etc.). Handle different types of content (text, images, videos). Content Analysis\: Extract and preprocess text from articles. Analyze the content for potential indicators of fake news. Model Training and Prediction\: Use machine learning models to classify content as fake or real. Continuously improve models with new data and f"See full answer

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

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

Anonymous Capybara - "using a relational database isn't a good choice for this system! we need more availability here than consistency (CAP theorem)"See full answer

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

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

Aldar M. - "/my initial thought was to make an example with program integration project that I led a few years ago Stage 1: Project Planning. The first stage of SDLC is all about “What do we want?” my approach was simply take project life cycle structure(initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closure) and elaborate on each stages did i. I lack a details and Excell skills and I should have taken SDLC structure because I fits better with JD. Stage 2: Gathering Requirements & Ana"See full answer

Alfredo M. - "First, I'd like to ask some clarifying questions and try to narrow down the scope of this question. Among them I would like to ask: Are we looking to optimize for a specific goal or metric? Eg: we want more users/queries or are we looking to increase revenue? Are we testing over a specific aspect of Bing? EG: UI, search quality results, recommendation engine, etc. Duration and size of the test. Available resources or constraints (teams, technology, budget) Now, to ass"See full answer

Saket S. - "Agile processes have been a game changer for Software development projects from last 2 decades. But there are situations where Agile practices don't work very well and demand a workaround. Some of those scenarios are mentioned below: No Project Plan or Status reports: Agile Project team does not produce formal project plans or status reports unlike Traditional SDLC Projects. Sometimes it is hard to represent project status to senior executives who are interested in the overall status and risk"See full answer

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

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

Scott S. - " Project Overview: Real-Time Risk Management System Objective The goal was to develop a real-time risk management system capable of processing and analyzing large volumes of trading data to provide near-instantaneous risk assessments. This system was crucial for enabling traders to make informed decisions while managing their exposure to various market risks in real-time. Complexity Factors 1. \\Data Volume and Velocity\\ \\High Throughput:\\ The system needed to ha"See full answer

Adib M. - "(1) Discovery: Get to know the stakeholders, PM, Engg team via 1-1. Attend project status meeting where either you are introduced to the stakeholders or actually run it with the goal being to introduce yourself and that you will be catching up on the state of the project in time of the next meeting Understand the Goals of the project and its impact on team and enterprise (2) Planning: Based on current velocity/ burn-rate, estimate what % of the project would be complete at 100% resource uti"See full answer