Top Technical Program Manager Interview Questions

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

Abdurhman M. - " Adaptability Teamwork Analytical skills Decision-making skills"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "Solving any problems related to Custemers profitable through new service or product offer"See full answer

Simran S. - "I recently led the development and implementation of a data analytics platform tailored for credit unions and mortgage companies, which was suffering from fragmented systems, inconsistent data fields across LOS platforms, and outdated reporting practices. Here's how I managed the full lifecycle: ✅ Initiation / Discovery Conducted executive interviews across five financial institutions to understand reporting and visibility gaps. Shadowed loan officers and underwriters"See full answer

Sneha D. - "Created a solution for remote online learning app on the lines of coursera and also made a option for live streaming classes . Uni admin creates uni account, courses, adds instructors; instructors can create content , give classes ; student searches, enrols, consumes content. Used micro services architecture with APIs for all functions, RDBMS, NoSQL , indexed with redis and elastic."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

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

Adib M. - "Situation: This is an example from 2019 where I worked as a TPM in a leading company in the Tax, Accounting and Audit software biz in N. America. All our engineering teams had adopted agile ways of working and utilizing Scrum. Our teams had been at this for a while and were pretty good at planning and executing sprints. We would have quarterly releases to Production but we strived to have Production ready increments each Sprint. Since the software was in use for years , we would often get Pr"See full answer

A R. - "I liked the role of a TPM due to the opportunity to contribute to the multiple dimensions of software product development. As a TPM I need to collaborate with multiple teams like Engineering, Product, and other business functions, but I also get the opportunity to contribute to the technical aspects of the program/project. I can use my sharp analytical skills to identify/anticipate problems, and leverage my problem solving skills to unblock the teams. I orchestrate multiple teams effort to del"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

David P. - "delete"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

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