"As a Technical Program Manager at a software company, I was responsible for leading a project that aimed to implement a new feature in our software that would significantly enhance the user experience. The new feature required a significant investment in terms of time and resources.
During one of the weekly status update meetings with the company's leadership, I presented the project's progress and proposed a plan for the next steps. However, I failed to convince the leadership to allocate the n"
Anonymous Panda - "As a Technical Program Manager at a software company, I was responsible for leading a project that aimed to implement a new feature in our software that would significantly enhance the user experience. The new feature required a significant investment in terms of time and resources.
During one of the weekly status update meetings with the company's leadership, I presented the project's progress and proposed a plan for the next steps. However, I failed to convince the leadership to allocate the n"See full answer
"impact analysis - Facilitate triage with engg and PM to understand the impact to system/ users. and Severity of defect.
Work with Engg to estimate the fix and turnaround time to dev/test/release.
will this delay the launch? If no, great. Launch as planned.
If yes, call stakeholder meeting informing about critical defect, impact to system/users, estimate to fix and likely delay. Recommend delay launch due to criticality/severity of defect. Once get their buy in, present plan to fix, test and"
Adib M. - "impact analysis - Facilitate triage with engg and PM to understand the impact to system/ users. and Severity of defect.
Work with Engg to estimate the fix and turnaround time to dev/test/release.
will this delay the launch? If no, great. Launch as planned.
If yes, call stakeholder meeting informing about critical defect, impact to system/users, estimate to fix and likely delay. Recommend delay launch due to criticality/severity of defect. Once get their buy in, present plan to fix, test and"See full answer
Behavioral
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"I gave an example of a situation where on the project we needed to onboard 110 applications into the system to get their account and entitlement information for quarterly access review work stream. Traditionally we could have gone manual route and could have done it manually one by one which would have required more time and resources. I actually understood the applications and how they are built by talking to application owners and then based on the data bucketed them and found the pattern that"
Neo S. - "I gave an example of a situation where on the project we needed to onboard 110 applications into the system to get their account and entitlement information for quarterly access review work stream. Traditionally we could have gone manual route and could have done it manually one by one which would have required more time and resources. I actually understood the applications and how they are built by talking to application owners and then based on the data bucketed them and found the pattern that"See full answer
"Communication to stakeholders and replan with the early delay identified and also ensure the root cause is done as to why delay has happened."
Pradeep S. - "Communication to stakeholders and replan with the early delay identified and also ensure the root cause is done as to why delay has happened."See full answer
"I will need to understand
What are we selling and who is the target customer? Is one retail location per metro area enough or is the market big enough for multiple stores?
What is the goal of future retail locations? Gauge the market for fit or drive revenue.
If LA market is big enough for multiple stores, then for logistical reasons, I will prefer to open additional stores in the same geographic region.
If LA market is not large enough, then my second store will be in an a different"
ready4new - "I will need to understand
What are we selling and who is the target customer? Is one retail location per metro area enough or is the market big enough for multiple stores?
What is the goal of future retail locations? Gauge the market for fit or drive revenue.
If LA market is big enough for multiple stores, then for logistical reasons, I will prefer to open additional stores in the same geographic region.
If LA market is not large enough, then my second store will be in an a different"See full answer
"This is one of the core behavioral questions that you should expect to cover in any interview. In particular, it asks you to justify why you want to work at a specific company that you've applied for. There's no right answer for this, however we do recommend you list at least three distinct reasons.
Here's an example of what you might say:
> Great question! There's so many reasons, but I'll keep it to my top three.I love how intricate and delicate the payments space is and I want to work in this"
Exponent - "This is one of the core behavioral questions that you should expect to cover in any interview. In particular, it asks you to justify why you want to work at a specific company that you've applied for. There's no right answer for this, however we do recommend you list at least three distinct reasons.
Here's an example of what you might say:
> Great question! There's so many reasons, but I'll keep it to my top three.I love how intricate and delicate the payments space is and I want to work in this"See full answer
"At Kabuk Style, I found myself managing two major initiatives at the same time both of which had high visibility and were critical to the business. On one side, I was leading the launch of our PCI-compliant HafH Coin Wallet, which required tight coordination with compliance and engineering teams.
At the same time, I was overseeing the integration of over 200K+ property listings through global partners like SiteMinder and Hotelbeds. These projects had overlapping timelines, limited engineering"
Rajeev K. - "At Kabuk Style, I found myself managing two major initiatives at the same time both of which had high visibility and were critical to the business. On one side, I was leading the launch of our PCI-compliant HafH Coin Wallet, which required tight coordination with compliance and engineering teams.
At the same time, I was overseeing the integration of over 200K+ property listings through global partners like SiteMinder and Hotelbeds. These projects had overlapping timelines, limited engineering"See full answer
"I faced twice and it always slows down the career trajectory of engineers with complete context loss of previous hard earned projects"
Graig - "I faced twice and it always slows down the career trajectory of engineers with complete context loss of previous hard earned projects"See full answer