The ultimate guide to program manager interviews. Developed by FAANG engineers, this course offers strategies and practice with real-world questions to get interview-ready in just a few hours.

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Program managers are vital to the success of any organization, but their role varies from one organization to another. Now, you imagine the complexity and variation in the interview process and it can become overwhelming. This process is getting more competitive over time as more people are getting interested in it.

To help candidates with that, we have designed a course to crack interviews at top companies of the world: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, and Netflix. This course will accelerate your journey to prepare for a Technical Program Manager and Program Manager role.

Not only this, but we will also cover what hiring managers should look for in an ideal candidate.

Ace the FAANG Program Manager Interview for Beginners

You can use the links below if you want to dig deep into any of the topics. It is critical to note that reading all of the below links is optional.

## System design

-  [Detailed system design interview preparation with examples](https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview)



## Noteworthy design papers


- [Dynamo DB](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf)

- [MapReduce](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf)

- [Borg](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43438.pdf)

- [Paxos](https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf)

- [GFS](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf)

## Program management

- [Project Management resources]( https://www.pmi.org/)

- [TPM interview preparation](
https://www.educative.io/courses/hacking-the-tpm-interview)


- [Behavioral Interview](https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-behavioral-interview)





You can use the links below if you want to dig deep into any of the topics. It is critical to note that reading all of the below links is optional.

# System design

-  [Detailed system design interview preparation with examples](https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-interview)



# Noteworthy design papers


- [Dynamo DB](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf)

- [MapReduce](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/mapreduce-osdi04.pdf)

- [Borg](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/43438.pdf)

- [Paxos](https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf)

- [GFS](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf)

# Program management

- [Project Management resources]( https://www.pmi.org/)

- [TPM interview preparation](
https://www.educative.io/courses/hacking-the-tpm-interview)


- [Behavioral Interview](https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-behavioral-interview)





Explore more resources in this lesson to take it to the next level.


Resources and Links for Further Reading

Explore more resources in this lesson to take it to the next level.

Before Getting Started

Introduction to TPM and PM

Interview Structure for FAANG

Learn about Project Management

Crack the Behavioral Interview (Soft Skills)

Technical Judgement (System Design for TPM)

Further Reading

Conclusion

Resources and Links for Further Reading

System design