Technical Program Manager Interview Questions

Anonymous Crayfish - "Let me tell you about a time when I solved a problem at my previous company (one of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies). This was an internship and I was coming with almost 2 years of experience and 2 semesters of my graduate program. My experiences have mostly been theoretical or with startups. I've never solved problems at scale. The first week at this team was slow and relaxed, it was just onboarding. The real work started from the 2nd week when I felt like I was pushed into the ocean with n"See full answer

Scott S. - " Situation In the derivatives trading domain, timely and accurate data is crucial for making informed trading decisions. Our existing data processing system was facing challenges with latency and scalability, which hindered our ability to react swiftly to market changes. To address these issues, we designed a new real-time market data processing platform. Task The task was to develop a low-latency data processing platform that could handle real-time market data ingestion, processing, an"See full answer

Sagrika S. - "The biggest factor that excites me about technology is its ever changing and dynamic trend. In my life, I have seen the transition from landlines to simple mobile to smartphones, from Cathode tube desktop screen to super slim TFT and many more. I think technology has now (with time) become integral part of human life and getting in-sync with it is like a normal and very cool phenomena."See full answer

Priti S. - "T launch the Copilot Plus feature for Surface, follow these steps: Define Value Proposition: Highlight AI-driven enhancements for productivity, creativity, and collaboration tailored to Surface users. Target Audience: Focus on professionals, creators, and students with specific use cases. Product Development: Ensure seamless integration with Surface hardware (touchscreen, Pen) and leverage Azure AI for unique functionalities. Marketing Strategy: Build excitement with teasers, influencer partner"See full answer

Adib M. - "Useful article on API migration https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tips-successful-api-migration-pooja-nihalani/"See full answer

Nithesh S. - "First, let us start with the mission of Amazon: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” Alignment of recommendations system with Amazon's mission: Suggesting recommendations to the users would be a part of this mission as it would allow users to buy things on their mind for the lowest cost in market (may or may not be true). They might get better prices if they order adjacent items together. For example, i"See full answer

Adib M. - "Situation: introduced to a new technology that I have never used before. I have used many different packaged software, tools and technologies and I can grasp things quickly. Lets assume this new technology is a Planning tool for TPM (Planr) Target: To get familiar with Planr, its use cases, learn it well enough to be able to use it Action: Here are some of the actions I would take to learn Planr well (1) Find documentation on Planr = various use cases, see screenshots, watch demos,"See full answer

S G. - "If it's a product end to end, then there's a lot to say. If it's just a feature on top of a product then I will focus on the complexity and how I break complex tasks into small milestones to partner with XFN teams to nail it. Focus on situation, task, actions and results"See full answer

Ram - "Clarification: Are we talking about creating an experience or product as part of another product or from 0→1? Encourage - the goal is to increase % of citizen vote. Or want to vote? Vote - are we talking about national elections? Am I a product manager for the government? Any focus on geo, segment, or platform? Context - why do we want to do it? Did we experience a recent decline? Could it be hardware or software only? Digital or physical? Structure: Context "See full answer

Pm P. - "Since success metrics is a very broad term, to dive deep into WCS - What constitutes success. What is the objective of the company/product, north star/mission of the organization or product? Dependent on the company, market, the industry they play in. As an example: Facebook's mission is now empowerment, bringing the people together and giving them the power to build communities. Every part of its product aligns in one way or other with this goal. Be it, its Web/Mobile platform, Instagram,"See full answer

Nick L. - "when we are discussing about some issues, subjects or problem . we should consider all of the possibility cases which envolved inside the scenario.all of persons has own atitudes . challenging has a this benefite to see the problems and solves on other ways."See full answer

Arnab R. - "Trying to find the reason for the low utilization. If it is systematic risk, I will down size the team temporarily. If is due to planning try to tweak details in order to bring 50-50 with a 90 days target time."See full answer

Sayee M. - "talked about a time when customer is trying to go to cloud for first time and championing the effort.. it is strategic and also a risk because outside of the OEM, no one we know had implemented this product architecture on the cloud.. used first [principles, did a crawl, walk jog approach and implemented it. Risk because of lack of reference architecture, clodu tech was new to me . career making/breaking project for customer. result : project was successful. presented story in a conference."See full answer

Irina L. - "I’ve named Netflix, Acloset, Youtube music. Focused of YouTube music, increasing social interaction of existing users."See full answer

DM - "Situation - I had 2 projects in hand. 1st - My primary project under my direct line manager, and 2nd - Under a dotted line manager. I committed to my 2nd project based on my assumptions and planning of the primary project's scope & timelines. For both these projects, I was the key resource. Unfortunately, we got some new findings in my first project, and it happened to be a case where management made an overcommitment to our business without gauging the assumptions correctly. This put pressu"See full answer

Hmj V. - "Designed and framework to conduct risk and control assessment of applications that are prone to fraud risk and designed a target roadmap of overarching controls that further mitigates the risk. I explained how I took incharge of coming up with the framework for the assessment and held sessions. Role played with my team to think all the use cases possible and explained the accomplishments and takeaways."See full answer

Sneha D. - "Design a university voting app"See full answer