Senior Program Manager Interview Questions

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Phone interviews: - Basic questions about the past experience, the projects I managed - Some questions related to Amazon 14 principles, my questions were related to Earn Trust, Ownership and Customer Obsession. Onsite interview: - 5 interview sessions (including lunch) - make sure you prepared a few questions in each principles, with examples in STAR format. They will be picked up in the interview. - Solution Design: some interviewer will give you a problem and ask you to design a solution. Some others will ask you to describe past projects and its design.
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Senior Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Sep 1, 2016

Phone interviews: - Basic questions about the past experience, the projects I managed - Some questions related to Amazon 14 principles, my questions were related to Earn Trust, Ownership and Customer Obsession. Onsite interview: - 5 interview sessions (including lunch) - make sure you prepared a few questions in each principles, with examples in STAR format. They will be picked up in the interview. - Solution Design: some interviewer will give you a problem and ask you to design a solution. Some others will ask you to describe past projects and its design.

They asked the expected questions focusing on relevant experience, most recent project examples, and heavily behavioral, focused on leadership principles. Most of the questions were scenario-based like"Tell me about a time", "Have you ever", "What did you" & "How did you"
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Senior Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 24, 2025

They asked the expected questions focusing on relevant experience, most recent project examples, and heavily behavioral, focused on leadership principles. Most of the questions were scenario-based like"Tell me about a time", "Have you ever", "What did you" & "How did you"

"Are you the type of person that likes to help other people?" "Do you prefer a 9-5 schedule or a more flexible work schedule?" "Have you ever taken a personality test in the past and, if so, what were the results?" "Do you prefer a fixed salary, or a salary with bonuses and incentives?"
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Senior Program Manager

Interviewed at Gallup

3.8
Mar 2, 2017

"Are you the type of person that likes to help other people?" "Do you prefer a 9-5 schedule or a more flexible work schedule?" "Have you ever taken a personality test in the past and, if so, what were the results?" "Do you prefer a fixed salary, or a salary with bonuses and incentives?"

The skills test was a mobile calendar app with use cases to present a basic calendar view, create an appointment, modify an existing appointment, and a calendar reminder with 2 engineering resources, and a three month period of performance. The questions were all related to a project plan: create a WBS, gather estimates, create a schedule, assign resources, and identify risks.
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Senior Program Manager

Interviewed at Qualcomm

3.8
Jul 14, 2015

The skills test was a mobile calendar app with use cases to present a basic calendar view, create an appointment, modify an existing appointment, and a calendar reminder with 2 engineering resources, and a three month period of performance. The questions were all related to a project plan: create a WBS, gather estimates, create a schedule, assign resources, and identify risks.

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