Recruiter contacted me for TPM role at google. 1. How technical is TPM role. 2. What questions should i expect in recruiter screening. 4. Are there any program manager roles at google and how different are they from TPM role. TPM -> technical program manager
what’s your profile like? I am interviewing for TPM at google too
I interviewed for TPM a couple months ago. One interviewer was super MBAish and had buzzword-heavy questions like “what are the 5 levers of change management”. Had 2 system design/technical rounds, 1 culture round, 1 practical PM round, and MBA round. No coding. My feedback was system design was good, PM knowledge was light. This was a generalist tpm in cloud.
Did you get the offer ?
Nope. I made it clear to the recruiter what level I needed to be and he didn’t think feedback supported that level. TPM payscale is much lower than engineering scale.
It's about Google Cloud TPM interview: https://www.rooftopslushie.com/request/Google-Cloud-TPM-Interview-Tips-86 Hope that helps!
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Yes google has product, program, and technical program manager roles. I had to do a (c++ but I could have picked go or something else) coding test (shared document over the phone before going onsite), I had just as many system design interviews as behavioral interviews, I had to describe why I was making certain api decisions, where bottlenecks in my architecture would be, what types of scaling problems I had on a previous product, why I made tradeoffs in which box I put my teams dev effort vs which boxes I let be inefficient etc
Hey @google unicorn - thanks for the deets ,any pointers on where I can find TPM mock interview resources for G ?
There was some stuff on YouTube. But really look at any of the “program manager” things for Microsoft (that’s a superset of google tpm), and the amazon stuff just don’t worry about their core principals crap. Also look for the system design interview help, it will be the same for a google tpm as it is for a developer.
Does MSCS degree required for Technical program management and technical product management roles? Just trying to understand what's the difference on the background for these two roles?
I know PHDs from top schools - CMU, MIT, etc who are TPMs and PMs
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TPMs are glorified secretaries.
Why?
All I have ever seen them do is take notes, make calls, arrange meetings. There was a recruiting coordinator who senselessly became a TPM and I had to spend half my time explaining stuff like I would to a 4 year old