I've spent all 8 years of my career in IT, leading projects/programs of different sizes and across different tech, and I feel I've absorbed enough technical knowledge in a broad sense, but I'm concerned about depth when it comes interviewing for a TPM job. Can anyone provide insight into the "tech bar" Amazon puts on a TPM vs a non-technical Program Manager? YOE: 8 TC: 129k
Great question. Since I recently went through this I will give some tips without violating NDA. I think I had about 3 tech questions presented to me. Two of them were whiteboard type of discussions and another I could just talk through and the interviewer was OK with that. Two out of the three were about describing some innovative tech solution I came up with and walk through it. I would be asked deep dive questions and I would describe how it worked, problems I solved, etc. So that was pretty easy. The other tech question was about solving a high level system design problem and how you would do it. That one did require I knew conceptually how a client - server interaction happens at a mid level. None of these questions were directly asking me about the technology. I could describe how I thought something would/could work and introduce the level of tech I knew. It will show what you know or don't know based on how you describe or answer the deep dives. I think they were satisfied that I knew enough of the details to get by for a TPM. I did get good feedback and got an offer. Note that I do not have experience in very large scale infrastructure projects so I was worried that might be noticed. So far it has not been an issue at Amazon and Google where I passed TPM interviews at both places. In fact because of that limitation I shifted from shooting for a Sr. SDM role to a Sr. TPM role where it is less detailed technical knowledge needed. (I have been out of the hands on coding world for a decade or two... :( )
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