Understanding SDLC: Its Definition and Significance

TPM Interview: Analytical Thinking in Programming Scenarios

Techniques for Answering Program Sense Questions

Project Initiation: Describe a project you initiated. How did you gather requirements, and how did you determine it was the right solution?

Cross-Team Collaboration: How do you handle a situation where two engineering teams have differing opinions on the direction of a project?

Prioritization: How do you prioritize features in a new product, especially when stakeholders have conflicting interests?

Project Delay: Can you talk about a time when a project was at risk of missing its deadline? What did you do?

Technical Challenge: Describe a technically challenging project you managed. How did you bridge the communication gap between the technical team and non-technical stakeholders?

Scope Change: How do you manage scope changes or feature requests in the middle of a project lifecycle?

Resource Allocation: If you had to manage multiple projects with limited resources, how would you decide where to allocate those resources?

Risk Management: Tell me about a project where you identified a significant risk. How did you mitigate it?

Stakeholder Feedback: Describe a situation where stakeholder feedback significantly altered the course of a project you were managing.

Project Failure: Can you discuss a project that didn’t go as planned or failed? What did you learn, and how did you handle it?

SDLC Integration: How do you ensure that all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) integrate seamlessly in a large project?

Tool and Tech Stack Decisions: How do you decide on the right tools or technology stack for a project?

Large Scale Rollouts: Describe how you managed the rollout of a large-scale feature or product. What strategies did you employ to ensure its success?

User-Centric Design: Can you talk about a time when user feedback dramatically influenced the technical direction of a project?

Team Dynamics: Describe a situation where you had to manage a project with a team that was not performing optimally. How did you turn things around?