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TPM Interview Preparation

TPM Interview Mind Map Just a week for interview preparation?Winning Strategy: Interview Preparation Winning Strategy: During Interview Winning Strategy: Post Interview TPM Responsibilities Printable Workbook - TBD (Queries to educative.io)

Elevator Pitch - Tell me about yourself

Creating a perfect Elevator Pitch - “Tell me about yourself.”Key TPM Characteristics to Project Sample Elevator Pitch [Worksheet] My Elevator Pitch

General Interview Questions

Why are you Leaving your Current Company?Why do you Want to Join our Company?What do you think is your strengths?What is your Weakness?Why should we Hire you, what Value do you bring?What exactly are you looking for in the next role?What were your significant contributions in the last few years?Tell me about a time you failed in recent times?Do you want to Ask any Questions?

Behavioral Question (Situation -> Action -> Result)

Amazon Leadership Principles & Questions Google Leadership Values Example using Amazon Leadership Values [Worksheet] Align two programs to all Amazon Leadership Value A time when you Exhibited Strong Leadership Skills?

Program Management Basics

Project Management Triangle - Triple Constraints Common Program Manager Terminologies Your Typical Day/Week as a Program Manager

Program Kickoff & Planning

How did you do project kick-off for your current program?How do you Plan Without Tech Team's support?How do you do Resource Management

Program Requirement

How do you Manage Program Requirements?What will you expect in requirement documents?How did you Manage a Difficult Customer?How do you evaluate business aspects in a requirement?What challenges have you faced related to requirements?

Escalations & Stakeholder Management

Escalation Fundamentals – When and how do you escalate?A time when you gave the bad news to the customer Tell me a time when you escalated [Worksheet]: Tell me a Recent Incident where you had to escalate A time when you convinced your manager

Risk Management

Risk Management Fundamentals How do you manage risk or what is your risk management style?[Worksheet] How do you Track, Prioritize and Manage risk?How to Handle Product Launch Delay Handle Delivery Slippage from Dependent Teams [Worksheet] Tell me a time when you were caught Off Guard!

Program Reporting

Report Collection, Consolidation and Status Reporting?

System Design Basics

Distributed System Characteristics Architecture Designs Database: when to use SQL & NoSQL?Data Partitioning Caching Message Queue Load Balancer Firewall REST APIs User Testing & Deployment

Design Review

What will you look for in a System Design?How would you validate Cross-Functional Design across teams?Identifying and Pre-empting Risk in Design

Technical Deep Dive

Why do Candidates fail in TPM Interview?

How to prepare for Technical Deep Dive Rounds?

[Worksheet] Technical Deep Dive of my Programs

[Worksheet] Most Technically Challenging Program

UML Diagrams

Sequence Diagram Use Case Diagram Class Diagram

System Design Interview

Interview Strategy for System Design interviews How to Scale a System from 1 User to Millions of Users What happens when you Type a URL? (example google.com)How do you design a URL Shortening Service?Design a Write Heavy System - DropBox Design a Read Heavy System - Twitter

Case Studies

Multiple Functional Feature Product for Apple in 3 months Amazon wants to Add Beauty Salon Service and you are the TPM.Improve Amazon.com and Execute this Program as a TPM

Mock Interviews

How to do Mock Interview Mock Interview #1 Mock Interview #2 Mock Interview #3 Mock Interview #4 Mock Interview #5 Mock Interview #6 Mock Interview #7

Resume Preparation

Resume Checklist

Appendix

Good References Abbreviations Bibliography

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Why do Candidates fail in TPM Interview?

Why do Candidates fail in TPM Interview?

Why do Candidates fail in TPM Interview?

Remember, TPM stands for “Technical” Program Manager.
In companies like Amazon, almost 80% of TPM candidates fail to clear the interview as they are unable to answer the technical details of the programs they handled.
Many candidates give the impression that ...

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