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Program Manager Interview Questions

1

What do you look for in a manager?

Open-ended

2

What do you look for when conducting assessments?

Open-ended

3

What do you think are the most unique compliance challenges when looking at new products?

Open-ended

4

What does privacy by design mean?

Open-ended

5

What does revenue platforms capabilities mean to you?

Open-ended

6

What does ushering projects through the process mean to you?

Open-ended

7

What is the most entrepreneurial thing you have done in your career? Why is this your best example?

Behavioral

8

What is the most important KPI and why?

Behavioral

9

What is your strategy for working geographically distributed teammates?

Behavioral

10

What metrics will you focus on in this role and why?

Behavioral

11

What�s the difference between privacy and data security?

Open-ended

12

Why are order to cash systems important?

Open-ended

13

Why should Google care about privacy?

Open-ended

14

Work with humility

Open-ended

15

You are asked to replace old meter with smart meters?

Open-ended

16

How do you maximize impact?

Open-ended

17

Tell me about the most complex revenue program you have been a part of and how you helped it achieve success?

Behavioral

18

How do you build trust?

Open-ended

19

How do you assess customer requirements?

Open-ended

20

How are you going to implement a COE?

Open-ended

21

How do you build trust with third party vendors?

Open-ended

22

How do you advocate for users?

Open-ended

23

Help Waymo create a new payments system.

Open-ended

24

How do you assess risk?

Open-ended

25

How do you balance the needs of the business and the needs of the vendors?

Open-ended

26

How do you build metrics to measure success?

Open-ended

27

How do you come up with a program plan?

Open-ended

28

How do you come up with escalation resolution path

Open-ended

29

How do you communicate and how to keep teams updated.

Open-ended

30

Give us an example of when you faced a technical and a people challenge at the same time?

Behavioral

31

Tell me about a time you uncovered a significant technical issue?

Behavioral

32

Tell me about a time you utilized data to have amazing success?

Behavioral

33

Tell me about a time you were able to create more efficient EHS policies?

Behavioral

34

Tell me about a time you were able to understand a customer's priorities and help them have great success?

Behavioral

35

Tell me about a time you were in the testing phase and a critical stakeholder was not responsive,

Behavioral

36

Tell me about a time you were proactive and how it lead to success?

Behavioral

37

Tell me about a time you worked seamlessly behind the scenes to make sure a program was successful?

Behavioral

38

Tell me about a time your analysis led to great results in the program?

Behavioral

39

Tell me about a time your data/analysis helped a program have success?

Behavioral

40

Tell me about a time your planning failed?

Behavioral

41

Tell me about a time your product design failed and how you resolved the situation?

Behavioral

42

Tell me about a time your remediation plans did not go according to plan?

Behavioral

43

Tell me about a time your versatility helped the engineering team have success?

Behavioral

44

Tell me about a time your were able to work with the product, engineering, and design team to make a project successful?

Behavioral

45

Tell me about executed on a project or program and achieved exceptional results?

Behavioral

46

Tell me about how you overcame a challenge with an external partner?

Behavioral

47

Tell me about the most challenging delay you experienced when trying to ship a new feature on a product? How did you overcome the delay and what was the result?

Behavioral

48

Tell me about the most complex ERP implementation you have ever been a part of, complexity

Behavioral

49

Tell me about the most complex program you have ever run.

Behavioral

50

Tell me about the most innovative solution you had in your career and why it was important to the organization?

Behavioral

293

Tell me about your most successful financial systems project?

Behavioral

294

The product owner would have to fill out some specifics on their plan

Behavioral

295

This PM is the glue that is holding the magic behind the team

Behavioral

296

What are the critical factors to keep in mind when outsourcing decisions?

Open-ended

297

What are the critical financial components to track in vendor operations?

Open-ended

298

What are the different steps you would take to guide your customer if he wants to develop an app using Azure?

Open-ended

299

What are the different steps you would take to guide your customer if she wants to develop an app using GCP products?

Open-ended

300

What are the most critical components in a program�s lifecycle?

Open-ended

301

What are the most critical components of a successful roadmap?

Open-ended

302

What are the most critical preventative actions you can take with vendors to ensure success?

Open-ended

303

What are the most important aspects of compliance and why?

Open-ended

304

What are the most important compliance controls and why?

Open-ended

305

What are the most important compliance risks and controls?

Open-ended

306

What are the most important components of a project�s life cycle?

Open-ended

307

What are the most important components of root cause analysis?

Open-ended

308

What are the most important components of the project Lifecycle?

Open-ended

309

What are the most important items in a data's lifecycle and why?

Open-ended

310

What are the most important items to consider when looking at design?

Open-ended

311

What are the most important items to consider when trying to optimize business processes?

Open-ended

312

What are the most important steps in a project's life cycle?

Open-ended

313

What are the most important steps of planning?

Open-ended

314

What are the steps you take to foster and continually build strong relationships?

Open-ended

315

What are the steps you take to identify risk?

Open-ended

316

What are the steps you take to recommend solutions?

Open-ended

317

What are the steps you would take if an EHS compliance issue came up?

Open-ended

318

What are the three biggest advantages Azure

Open-ended

319

What are the three most critical items to become a dependable point of contact to cross-functional teams?

Open-ended

320

What are the three most important items to consider with SAP Master Data Management as it pertains to NPI?

Open-ended

321

What compliance items will you focus on in this role?

Open-ended

322

What do you do if there has been a payment security breach?

Open-ended

323

How would you scale testing programs at Facebook?

Open-ended

324

I want to imagine you are the EHS expert on a project, how do you make sure everyone understands what you need from a technical perspective?

Open-ended

325

I want to imagine you are the EHS expert on a project, how do you make sure everyone understands what you need from an EHS perspective?

Open-ended

326

I want to imagine you are the expert on a project, how do you make sure everyone understands what you need from a project perspective?

Open-ended

327

I want you to imagine that payroll and electronic payments teams are not getting along, how would you resolve the issue?

Open-ended

328

I want you to imagine you are near the end of a program with your product launch only a month away. An item was missed in the requirements analysis, what do you do?

Open-ended

329

I want you to imagine you are seriously under-resourced from a people perspective, what do you do get the people you need to complete the program on time?

Open-ended

330

Of the four risk assessment phases - planning, readiness, testing and reporting, which one is the most important and why?

Open-ended

Provide an example of a time the data/metrics were off and how you resolved the issue/s?

Behavioral

90

Provide an example of when you�ve been able to see around the corner to meet a customer's technical needs before they knew they wanted something?

Behavioral

91

Tell about a time you failed, what you learned, and how you applied those learnings?

Behavioral

92

Tell me about a complex challenge you solved for a previous company?

Behavioral

93

Tell me about a key technology decision or other important strategic decision you had to make for which there was not enough data or benchmarks.

Behavioral

94

Tell me about a process improvement that you implemented that positively impacted not only the program you worked on, but had significant impact on future programs, is used by other teams, etc.?

Behavioral

95

Tell me about a process you scaled?

Behavioral

96

Tell me about a time communication played a big role in the success of a program?

Behavioral

97

Tell me about a time documentation played a critical role in the success of a project?

Behavioral

98

Tell me about a time that your ability to leverage tools helped the program have greater success?

Behavioral

99

Tell me about a time the product and engineering team were not getting along and how you resolved the conflict?

Behavioral

100

Tell me about a time the product team and engineering disagreed on the design and how you helped bring them together and move the project forward?

Behavioral

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