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?