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Technical program managers
Questions for TPM loops: running programs across teams, slips, dependencies, launches, and making technical risk clear.
- 01Cross-team programsTell me about a program you ran across several teams with competing priorities.
- 02Recovering a slipDescribe a time a program you ran slipped. What did you do?
- 03Executive communicationHow did you make a complex technical risk understandable to executives?
- 04Dependency managementTell me about a dependency you did not control that threatened your program.
- 05ProcessDescribe a time you changed how teams planned or tracked work.
- 06Technical depthTell me about a technical trade-off you helped engineers make.
- 07Launch readinessDescribe a launch you coordinated. How did you decide it was ready?
- 08ConflictTell me about a time you resolved a conflict between two engineering leads.
- 09SignalsHow do you know a program is on track without asking everyone for status?