Senior Technical Project Manager Interview Questions

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Q: What are you good at? Q: What are you learning about? Q: Example of leaving something better at previous companies. Q: Time you changed your mind about something important. Q: Past companies worked for and why you left. Q: How do you go about researching? Q: What do you do when something goes wrong? Q: What would you do differently in your next role? Q: People who liked and didn't like you; what would they say about you. Q: Describe a time a project went horribly wrong. Q: Time you felt for or against a decision at work. Q: Based on your experience, how do you enable project management to effectively partner with product and engineering teams? What are the important factors to consider and how have you been successful in building these relationships? Q: How would you design a system for tracking team velocity and quality? What metrics would you use, how would you expose those metrics to executive leadership and at what cadence? Think about what data is useful versus what is non-actionable or unnecessary. The tools at your disposal are Jira, Github, Confluence, Lucid Chart and Miro. Q: How would you define the KPIs for the Product Team? What do you expect to change as the company grows?
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Q: What are you good at? Q: What are you learning about? Q: Example of leaving something better at previous companies. Q: Time you changed your mind about something important. Q: Past companies worked for and why you left. Q: How do you go about researching? Q: What do you do when something goes wrong? Q: What would you do differently in your next role? Q: People who liked and didn't like you; what would they say about you. Q: Describe a time a project went horribly wrong. Q: Time you felt for or against a decision at work. Q: Based on your experience, how do you enable project management to effectively partner with product and engineering teams? What are the important factors to consider and how have you been successful in building these relationships? Q: How would you design a system for tracking team velocity and quality? What metrics would you use, how would you expose those metrics to executive leadership and at what cadence? Think about what data is useful versus what is non-actionable or unnecessary. The tools at your disposal are Jira, Github, Confluence, Lucid Chart and Miro. Q: How would you define the KPIs for the Product Team? What do you expect to change as the company grows?

There was a good range of interview questions. There were the more situational questions such as: Describe a project that went well or didn't go well and how you managed that? As well as more personal style and values based ones such as: How do you work with a team? How do you manage conflicts? and What are your dealbreakers for working with a company?
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Senior Technical Project Manager

Interviewed at Shogun

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Oct 5, 2021

There was a good range of interview questions. There were the more situational questions such as: Describe a project that went well or didn't go well and how you managed that? As well as more personal style and values based ones such as: How do you work with a team? How do you manage conflicts? and What are your dealbreakers for working with a company?

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