Technical Program Manager Execution Interview Questions

Adib M. - "(1) Discovery: Get to know the stakeholders, PM, Engg team via 1-1. Attend project status meeting where either you are introduced to the stakeholders or actually run it with the goal being to introduce yourself and that you will be catching up on the state of the project in time of the next meeting Understand the Goals of the project and its impact on team and enterprise (2) Planning: Based on current velocity/ burn-rate, estimate what % of the project would be complete at 100% resource uti"See full answer

Anthony F. - "Asked clarifying questions to know if this was a program already in existence, how long the problem had been, causes and how the problem was brought to attention. Using that information, went through a framework (provided generally below): Making sure to review documentation/existing contracts/vendors/plans. Review budget and timeline for the program. Review resources available. Review the data (or gather) and the scope of the project (city center, suburbs, few blocks, whole city, etc). Set mee"See full answer

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

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

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

Sayee M. - "i asked if she meant operations business analytics metrics.. she clarified that she meant operational/stability metrics.. i explained that i used dynatrace to monitor the product and she said i want to know about SLAs etc. she was looking for the words SLA SLO and SLI.. i then explained SLA 99.99% various SLO's contributed to it like system uptime, continous testing of business functions, and incident mgmt metrics."See full answer

Divya K. - "You will need to start from Browser and go all the way up to Analytic systems and methods. Everything needs to be covered"See full answer

Rajesh P. - "I talked about how I request filtered using data and friendly escalated to keep the program on track. Also, delved deep into the tech stack to identify the areas where we need extra coverage and negotiated resources to handle those areas."See full answer