Top 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

Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had to collect data points by deploying a minimum viable product due to unclear business requirements/dynamic nature of business. Emphasized on exact data points and how they strategically used to iteratively deploy improved version of product."See full answer

Vibhor R. - "As a product manager, my focus is to bring the what and why of the product and deliver the product in the promised timeline. With that said, I typically work closely with my engineering and onboard them during the planning sessions to have a say on the design and feasibility. I try to keep an idea where PMs are not the only responsible folks for ideation and engineering is free to pitch in their two cents. In addition, I typically try to do daily/weekly standup check-ins with my Developers and D"See full answer

Shiva K. - "Increasing a development team's productivity by 25% requires a multifaceted approach that addresses various aspects of team dynamics, processes, and individual performance. Here's a structured approach to tackle this challenge: Assess Current Productivity Levels: Before implementing any changes, it's crucial to understand the current productivity levels of the team. This can be measured through metrics such as velocity (for Agile teams), time-to-market, defect rates, etc. **Identify Bo"See full answer

Amparo L. - "One time I refuse someone that I can’t help them because I was busy working on my task that required a long time for me to complete it but once I explain to them why I could NOT help them, they totally understand it and then they ask the front desk."See full answer

Anchal V. - "understand the top priorities and rank each feature based on value and effort criteria. Scope: emphasize on clarity and risk assessment of the features. In tough deadlines what is must within the feature. highlight the tradeoff early based on the above two"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "Start your stream Use the Post tab to: Choose where to post your live broadcast. Write a description. Select a camera, mic and screen (if screen sharing). Add a title for your live broadcast (optional). Select the primary language of the stream. ... Once everything is set, select Go Live."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

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

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

Shubham A. - "I was working in a Silicon Validation group and the roadmap for all validation strategy was defined, But the problem with that was it was as with the roadmap given, the quality would have compromised and hence, I raised a concern regarding the quality of the product. Initially the team members were not convinced, I borrowed a week's time with them and scheduled another meeting and brought up all the data(high level) which we should be covering during the validation timeframe. Also added tentati"See full answer

Tesfaye M. - "This situation requires balancing business urgency with technical stability. Here's how I'd approach it: 1. Understand the Business Requirement Clarify why the new requirement is urgent. What’s the impact if it's delayed? Is it revenue-generating, compliance-related, or competitive? 2. Assess the Bugs Work with engineering to understand:Root cause: Are the bugs pointing to a deeper systemic issue? Severity and impact: Are they blocking users or just edge cases?"See full answer

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

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

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

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

BePostive - "· Able to release multiple value-added projects, and also did some failures and learned from them · Helped in team members grow ex: one-person pursed career in product management"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