Technical Program Manager Interview Questions

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

Deepti K. - "I gave multiple answers including polling the service every 10 sec to see customer. Or we can have the client side call which will send this data after 10 sec to us. We will store in dynamo DB and then send through pipelines to redshift DB for analytics."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

Dave F. - "After researching Glassdoor, I provided an in-depth answer that incorporated my interest in DB technologies, alignment with career objectives, and ability to make an impact from professional experience. "See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "For larger projects, companies will often hire project managers to plan, document, organize and oversee a project's life cycle, helping ensure projects are completed on time and on budget. However, due to limited resources such as limited budgets or personnel constraints, many teams function without a project manager."See full answer

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

Atefeh M. - "I received an offer to join a well-known company as a senior product manager with very good payment. I was in my third of pregnancy. so if I joined the company, I would have left it in 6th month. So on the conversation with VP of product I told him the situation. He thanked me, and told me that we would wait for you after 2 years from now."See full answer

Sadhana U. - "Know your audience Understand who the end user is and their role within the organization. Adapt technical lingo to lingo that can be understood by the end user. Diagrams of functions with less dense text is helpful for non-technical users. If it presents like a Manual, that's a turnoff. If it presents like a Guide, non-technical people can follow it. Simplify the problem By simplifying the problem you can explain it to your client in her/his own words. Try to use examples from the client'"See full answer

Anand K. - "I started off with defining the users of the system. From them i dervied the functional requirements and categories into MoSCoW. Then for the DB part, Userprofiles, App data to be stored in a RDBMS. The binary apps to be stored in a scalable, distributed DB such as S3. The app data from RDBS to have a link to S3 URLS. Then i touched upon Partition tolerance while scaling, Replication, Caching at multiple levels, Load balancers at multiple levels. This being my first System design interview i"See full answer

Anonymous Impala - "Understand who will use the kitchen is the first step"See full answer

Nilanjan D. - "I think we can analyse the data that's collected especially the users who are requesting it.if we find that there are set of users who regularly use this service then we may cache the data for those users to speed up processing and better the experience. The fresh data (which will be a delta on the cached data can only be calculated) and the stale data can be left out thereby updating the cache"See full answer

Chelsey V. - "Suppliers have an interest in the purchase of inputs by the company. They want companies to pay on time"See full answer

David P. - "delete"See full answer