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Updated 13 Sep 2024

Amazon Senior Program Manager Interview Experiences

8 interviews found

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 7 interview rounds.

Round 1 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me abt yourself
  • Ans. 

    Experienced program manager with a background in leading cross-functional teams to successful project completion.

    • Over 8 years of experience in program management

    • Skilled in leading cross-functional teams

    • Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget

    • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

    • Certified in project management (e.g. PMP)

    • Previously managed a large-scale software implementation

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me about yourself.
  • Ans. 

    Experienced Senior Program Manager with a background in leading cross-functional teams and delivering successful projects.

    • Over 10 years of experience in program management

    • Skilled in leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within budget

    • Strong background in stakeholder management and communication

    • Proven track record of successfully delivering complex projects, such as implementing a new CRM system

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me abt yourself
  • Ans. 

    Experienced program manager with a background in leading cross-functional teams to successful project completion.

    • Over 8 years of experience in program management

    • Skilled in leading cross-functional teams

    • Proven track record of successful project completion

    • Strong communication and organizational skills

    • Experience in budget management and resource allocation

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. .Tell me abt yourself
  • Ans. 

    Experienced program manager with a background in leading cross-functional teams to successful project completion.

    • Over 8 years of experience in program management

    • Skilled in stakeholder communication and project planning

    • Led a team to launch a new product, increasing revenue by 20%

  • Answered by AI
Round 5 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me abt yourself
  • Ans. 

    Experienced Senior Program Manager with a proven track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact projects.

    • Over 10 years of experience in program management

    • Strong leadership skills in guiding teams towards project goals

    • Expertise in stakeholder management and communication

    • Track record of delivering projects on time and within budget

    • Proficient in project management tools and methodologie

  • Answered by AI
Round 6 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me abt yourself
  • Ans. 

    Experienced program manager with a background in leading cross-functional teams to successful project completion.

    • Over 8 years of experience in program management

    • Skilled in leading cross-functional teams

    • Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget

    • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

    • Certified in project management (e.g. PMP)

    • Previously managed a large-scale software implementation

  • Answered by AI
Round 7 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell me abt yourself
  • Ans. 

    Experienced program manager with a background in leading cross-functional teams to successful project completion.

    • Over 8 years of experience in program management

    • Skilled in leading cross-functional teams

    • Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget

    • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

    • Certified in project management (e.g. PMP)

    • Previously managed a large-scale software implementation

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Describe a Challenge in your prior work experience Describe a project where you sorted out a problem

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - In the answers, star method is critical however you have to try and be very process driven in the explanation. If your industry experience isn’t relevant, don’t provide details on that but only on the process

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Q3. How to cope up with tight deadlines around low shrinkage fatality
Q4. How do you manage the resource who is underperforming?
Q5. An example when you sacrificed a short term goal for long term be ... read more
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Give an example where you managed conflicts?
  • Ans. 

    Managed conflicts by facilitating open communication, understanding all perspectives, and finding common ground.

    • Facilitated open communication between conflicting parties

    • Listened to all perspectives and concerns

    • Identified common ground and areas of compromise

    • Mediated discussions to reach a resolution

    • Implemented conflict resolution strategies to prevent future conflicts

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Give an example where you did not succeed and how did you manage it?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare SMART goals and ensure you give an example, Situation, Issue, Result, and Action.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why do you think you will excel in the particular role?
  • Q2. Explain your previous role and experience in program management
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain the challenges, you ought to face in client facing roles
  • Q2. How to cope up with tight deadlines around low shrinkage fatality
  • Ans. 

    To cope with tight deadlines around low shrinkage fatality, prioritize tasks, delegate responsibilities, communicate effectively, and utilize resources efficiently.

    • Prioritize tasks based on urgency and importance

    • Delegate responsibilities to team members to distribute workload

    • Communicate effectively with team members to ensure everyone is on the same page

    • Utilize resources efficiently to streamline processes and meet dea...

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Any question regarding role and career pathway
  • Q2. Compensation and salary breakdown discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Amazon Senior Program Manager interview:
  • Global Program Management
  • Customer Relationship
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Orchestrate your answers with Customer Obsession and Deliver results

Amazon interview questions for designations

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 Assistant Program Manager

 (1)

 Program Operations Manager

 (1)

Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Sep 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What's the achievement you proud of?
  • Q2. Please share numbers around your previous role?
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about a time that you think big
  • Q2. Tell me about a time that you dive deep

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - be familiar with their leadership principals. All interview questions come from the principals

Senior Program Manager Jobs at Amazon

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I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Sep 2021. There were 8 interview rounds.

Round 1 - HR 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Share details of your previous job.
  • Q2. Why are you looking for a change?
  • Q3. Why should we hire you?
Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Major projects handled in current org, technical scope and discussions on same
  • Q2. What was my specific Technical involvement in the project and what new technologies and insights i got from same?
  • Q3. Deep dive into each technology platform and technology operation aspect that I worked on
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. End to end system design regarding a product that Amazon currently sells. Discuss in depth on features around data flow, storage and backend (database technology and messaging queues)
Round 4 - Case Study 

2 instances covering leadership principles of Amazon and technical know how of projects and production support instances

Round 5 - Case Study 

2 instances of leadership principles and in depth design and flow discussion on both projects including - what was the end goal, technology impact, road map, operations aspect and design input from my side.

Round 6 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1 case study on end to end design that I carried out individually and in depth discussion on 2 leadership principles - basically situation based behavorial questions
Round 7 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Bar raiser round focussing on specific leadership principles - behavorial questions like how to handle conflict, how to commit and disagree, how to handle differences in team and priorities
Round 8 - HR 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
  • Q2. What are your salary expectations?
  • Q3. Share details of your previous job.
  • Q4. What is your family background?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do in depth study on technical aspects. Especially brush on basics. Look for online tutorials and case studies related to doing system design within 40-45 mins. Be very clear and crisp with your description of projects that you have worked on and specifically highlight what your individual contribution was.

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Nov 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mainly Behavioral questions based on past experiences
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behavioral questions like Tell me about a time....

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare to demonstrate Amazon's leadership principles in all your examples

Interview questions from similar companies

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

Round 1 - Face to Face 

(3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This was a typical DS/Algo where I was asked to solve two questions related to Binary Trees and write the pseudo code for both of them followed by some theoretical questions related to Operating Systems.

  • Q1. 

    K-th Largest Number in a BST

    Given a binary search tree (BST) consisting of integers and containing 'N' nodes, your task is to find and return the K-th largest element in this BST.

    If there is no K-th la...

  • Ans. 

    Find the K-th largest element in a BST.

    • Perform reverse in-order traversal of the BST to find the K-th largest element.

    • Keep track of the count of visited nodes to determine the K-th largest element.

    • Return -1 if there is no K-th largest element in the BST.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Is Height Balanced Binary Tree Problem Statement

    Determine if the given binary tree is height-balanced. A tree is considered height-balanced when:

    1. The left subtree is balanced.
    2. The right subtree is bala...
  • Ans. 

    Determine if a given binary tree is height-balanced by checking if left and right subtrees are balanced and their height difference is at most 1.

    • Check if the left subtree is balanced

    • Check if the right subtree is balanced

    • Calculate the height difference between the left and right subtrees

    • Return 'True' if all conditions are met, otherwise return 'False'

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Can you explain the concepts of Zombie Process and Orphan Process in operating systems?
  • Ans. 

    Zombie process is a terminated process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table. Orphan process is a process whose parent process has terminated.

    • Zombie process is created when a child process completes execution but its parent process has not yet read its exit status.

    • Zombie processes consume system resources and should be cleaned up by the parent process using wait() system call.

    • Orphan p...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Face to Face 

(3 Questions)

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

This was also a Data Structures and Algorithm round where I was asked to solve 3 medium to hard level problems along with their pseudo code within 60 minutes .

  • Q1. 

    Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters Problem Statement

    Given a string S of length L, determine the length of the longest substring that contains no repeating characters.

    Example:

    Input:
    "abac...
  • Ans. 

    Find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters in a given string.

    • Use a sliding window approach to keep track of the longest substring without repeating characters.

    • Use a hashmap to store the index of each character in the string.

    • Update the start index of the window when a repeating character is found.

    • Calculate the maximum length of the window as you iterate through the string.

    • Return the maximum le

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Problem: Search In Rotated Sorted Array

    Given a sorted array that has been rotated clockwise by an unknown amount, you need to answer Q queries. Each query is represented by an integer Q[i], and you must ...

  • Ans. 

    Search for integers in a rotated sorted array efficiently.

    • Use binary search to efficiently search for integers in the rotated sorted array.

    • Handle the rotation of the array while performing binary search.

    • Return the index of the integer if found, else return -1.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. 

    Count Subarrays with Sum Divisible by K

    Given an array ARR and an integer K, your task is to count all subarrays whose sum is divisible by the given integer K.

    Input:

    The first line of input contains an...
  • Ans. 

    Count subarrays with sum divisible by K in an array.

    • Iterate through the array and keep track of the prefix sum modulo K.

    • Use a hashmap to store the frequency of each prefix sum modulo K.

    • For each prefix sum, increment the count by the frequency of (prefix sum - K) modulo K.

    • Handle the case when prefix sum itself is divisible by K.

    • Return the total count of subarrays with sum divisible by K.

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Face to Face 

(2 Questions)

Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Medium

In this round , I was asked to code a simple question related to BST . After that I was asked the internal implementation of a Hash Map where I was supposed to design a Hash Map using any of the Hashing Algorithms that I know . This was preety challenging for me but I got to learn so much from it.

  • Q1. 

    Ceil Value from BST Problem Statement

    Given a Binary Search Tree (BST) and an integer, write a function to return the ceil value of a particular key in the BST.

    The ceil of an integer is defined as the s...

  • Ans. 

    Ceil value of a key in a Binary Search Tree (BST) is found by returning the smallest integer greater than or equal to the given number.

    • Traverse the BST to find the closest value greater than or equal to the key.

    • Compare the key with the current node value and update the ceil value accordingly.

    • Recursively move to the left or right subtree based on the comparison.

    • Return the ceil value once the traversal is complete.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    Design a Constant Time Data Structure

    Create a data structure that maintains mappings between keys and values, supporting the following operations in constant time:

    1. INSERT(key, value): Add or update t...
  • Ans. 

    Design a constant time data structure to maintain mappings between keys and values with various operations.

    • Use a hash table to achieve constant time complexity for INSERT, DELETE, SEARCH, and GET operations.

    • Keep track of the number of key-value pairs for GET_SIZE operation.

    • Check if the hash table is empty for IS_EMPTY operation.

    • Return true or false for SEARCH operation based on key existence.

    • Return the value associated...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAFlipkart interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 4 MonthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Skills evaluated in this interview

I was interviewed before Jan 2021.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

(3 Questions)

Round duration - 90 Minutes
Round difficulty - Hard

I found the online coding round of Flipkart to be quite difficult based on the constraints of the problem and their time limits. I coded the first problem quite easily but on the second and the third problem , my code could only pass a few test cases and gave TLE for most of them. Both the questions required very efficient solution and the last 5 to 10 Test Cases carried more weight than the rest so I didn't get through this round.

  • Q1. 

    Print the Kth Digit

    Given three non-negative integers N, M, and K, compute the Kth digit from the right in the number obtained from N raised to the power M (i.e., N ^ M).

    Input:

    The first line contains ...
  • Ans. 

    The task is to find the Kth digit from the right in the number obtained from N raised to the power M.

    • Iterate through the digits of N^M from right to left

    • Keep track of the position of the current digit

    • Return the digit at position K from the right

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 

    The Skyline Problem

    Compute the skyline of given rectangular buildings in a 2D city, eliminating hidden lines and forming the outer contour of the silhouette when viewed from a distance. Each building is ...

  • Ans. 

    Compute the skyline of given rectangular buildings in a 2D city, eliminating hidden lines and forming the outer contour of the silhouette.

    • Iterate through the buildings and create a list of critical points (x, y) where the height changes.

    • Sort the critical points based on x-coordinate and process them to form the skyline.

    • Merge consecutive horizontal segments of equal height into one to ensure no duplicates.

    • Return the fin...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. 

    Longest Palindromic Substring Problem Statement

    You are provided with a string STR of length N. The goal is to identify the longest palindromic substring within this string. In cases where multiple palind...

  • Ans. 

    Identify the longest palindromic substring in a given string.

    • Iterate through the string and expand around each character to find palindromes

    • Keep track of the longest palindrome found

    • Return the longest palindrome with the smallest start index

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPAFlipkart interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewRejected

Skills evaluated in this interview

Amazon Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Amazon Senior Program Manager interview?
Amazon interview process usually has 3-4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Amazon interview process are One-on-one Round, HR and Technical.
How to prepare for Amazon Senior Program Manager interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Amazon. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Amazon expect are Project Management, Program Management, E-commerce, Operations and Process Excellence.
What are the top questions asked in Amazon Senior Program Manager interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Amazon Senior Program Manager interview -

  1. How to cope up with tight deadlines around low shrinkage fatal...read more
  2. Give an example where you managed conflic...read more
  3. Bar raiser round focussing on specific leadership principles - behavorial quest...read more

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Amazon Senior Program Manager Interview Process

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3 Interview rounds

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