Top Technical Program Manager Interview Questions

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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
  • Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "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."

    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

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
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  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "Design a university voting app"

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

    Technical Program Manager
    Product Design
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  • "We need to take into consideration that projects are guided by 3 variables which are cost, requirements and time, the triangle of a project. In this situation, the resources are almost running out, so we need to take this situation to the stakeholders to talk about the requirements, I think it's just the variable that can save the project, because if we touch on the time aspect we also don't have much to do, because to deliver into the same timebox we need to add more people which means allocat"

    Vinicius F. - "We need to take into consideration that projects are guided by 3 variables which are cost, requirements and time, the triangle of a project. In this situation, the resources are almost running out, so we need to take this situation to the stakeholders to talk about the requirements, I think it's just the variable that can save the project, because if we touch on the time aspect we also don't have much to do, because to deliver into the same timebox we need to add more people which means allocat"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
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  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "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 "

    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

    Technical Program Manager
    Technical
  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 

    "program management is a role similar to project management but often encompasses more that just managing projects."

    Abdurhman M. - "program management is a role similar to project management but often encompasses more that just managing projects."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    "I would meet with my team to discuss and break down the 12 features into sub-tasks based on priority, then arrange a meeting with stakeholders to align on the priority levels and secure their approval.Next, I’d assign each of the main Priority 1 features to engineers accordingly, ensuring that the first three months focus on P1 delivery. The following three months would be dedicated to testing the P1 features while progressing with lower-priority features in parallel. This ensures that by month"

    Riley M. - "I would meet with my team to discuss and break down the 12 features into sub-tasks based on priority, then arrange a meeting with stakeholders to align on the priority levels and secure their approval.Next, I’d assign each of the main Priority 1 features to engineers accordingly, ensuring that the first three months focus on P1 delivery. The following three months would be dedicated to testing the P1 features while progressing with lower-priority features in parallel. This ensures that by month"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
  • "Thanks for the question! This is one of my favourite topics because it’s at the core of what we do as PMs DAILY: making the complex simple to drive alignment. I’ve got a structured way to approach this, and I’ll use it to explain payment aggregators - like Plaid - and how they enable Open Banking, with a twist about a technical hiccup I’ve seen in practice. Let’s dive in. I start by assessing the audience. Say I’m talking to a marketing manager at Transak - someone sharp but not techni"

    Adarsh S. - "Thanks for the question! This is one of my favourite topics because it’s at the core of what we do as PMs DAILY: making the complex simple to drive alignment. I’ve got a structured way to approach this, and I’ll use it to explain payment aggregators - like Plaid - and how they enable Open Banking, with a twist about a technical hiccup I’ve seen in practice. Let’s dive in. I start by assessing the audience. Say I’m talking to a marketing manager at Transak - someone sharp but not techni"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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  • "I had a very difficult situation where the company I was working for was having financial problems. Because of that, I had to fire one person from my team. I chose the team member we had hired most recently. She had great potential, but she still needed guidance to do her job. Before I talked to her, I reached out to some acquaintances from other companies, and one of them was hiring. So, when I gave her the bad news, I also told her about that opportunity. I gave her a recommendation letter and"

    Abdurhman M. - "I had a very difficult situation where the company I was working for was having financial problems. Because of that, I had to fire one person from my team. I chose the team member we had hired most recently. She had great potential, but she still needed guidance to do her job. Before I talked to her, I reached out to some acquaintances from other companies, and one of them was hiring. So, when I gave her the bad news, I also told her about that opportunity. I gave her a recommendation letter and"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
  • Slack logoAsked at Slack 

    "Generally during the planning phase, I work with various teams to identify milestones and high level target date based on affinity sizing of the work. Based on that, I build a roadmap and if there are unforeseen issues/risks that may impact our target date, I flag it as a risk. For instance, if the teams are working on a project and there's an issue where a team states they need to extend out their target date and that impacts a dependent team, this will surely change the deliverable date for th"

    Esther S. - "Generally during the planning phase, I work with various teams to identify milestones and high level target date based on affinity sizing of the work. Based on that, I build a roadmap and if there are unforeseen issues/risks that may impact our target date, I flag it as a risk. For instance, if the teams are working on a project and there's an issue where a team states they need to extend out their target date and that impacts a dependent team, this will surely change the deliverable date for th"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
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  • "Ask if the quality aspect is negotiable? Clearly hoping it is not. Then move on to explain nicely about the iron triangle - scope, time, resources. With scope and resources fixed, the time would need to be variable unless the project is considered cookie cutter, the exact project has been done many times in the past. (which is unlikely). If time cannot be relaxed, then the scope should be variable."

    Adib M. - "Ask if the quality aspect is negotiable? Clearly hoping it is not. Then move on to explain nicely about the iron triangle - scope, time, resources. With scope and resources fixed, the time would need to be variable unless the project is considered cookie cutter, the exact project has been done many times in the past. (which is unlikely). If time cannot be relaxed, then the scope should be variable."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
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  • "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."

    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

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
  • "As a Technical Program Manager at Amazon, I typically coordinate cross-functional teams to drive technical project execution, ensuring timelines and deliverables align with business goals. My day involves managing stakeholders, resolving blockers, and continuously optimizing processes for scale."

    Bajrangi C. - "As a Technical Program Manager at Amazon, I typically coordinate cross-functional teams to drive technical project execution, ensuring timelines and deliverables align with business goals. My day involves managing stakeholders, resolving blockers, and continuously optimizing processes for scale."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
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    "depending on project phase, apply various methodologies. scrum for app dev, waterfall for data migration, Testing (TDD for dev, FUT FiT for manual, UAT) , OCM has it own methodology ."

    Sayee M. - "depending on project phase, apply various methodologies. scrum for app dev, waterfall for data migration, Testing (TDD for dev, FUT FiT for manual, UAT) , OCM has it own methodology ."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Execution
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "I would try to understand their perspective, focus on the issue, find common ground, brainstorm solutions, and agree on a course of action."

    Alemayehu m G. - "I would try to understand their perspective, focus on the issue, find common ground, brainstorm solutions, and agree on a course of action."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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    Technical Program Manager
    System Design
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  • "Netflix Solves a problem that's mass market High importance and people actively looking for new solutions Value proposition Variety of content reasonable prices for tier 1, 2 and 3 cities Available on mobile, desktops and tablets Business model: subscription based, Revenue = f { # of users, lifetime of subscription, fee charged to user } --> Should Improve engagement to increase lifetime. User journey: Find content: Search for it / take a recommendation Watch it Give"

    Rahul J. - "Netflix Solves a problem that's mass market High importance and people actively looking for new solutions Value proposition Variety of content reasonable prices for tier 1, 2 and 3 cities Available on mobile, desktops and tablets Business model: subscription based, Revenue = f { # of users, lifetime of subscription, fee charged to user } --> Should Improve engagement to increase lifetime. User journey: Find content: Search for it / take a recommendation Watch it Give"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Technical Program Manager
    Program Sense
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