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As a project manager, it is your job to oversee the creation and execution of company projects and ensure that all team members stay on track to meet deadlines. Expect interview questions that will assess your ability to lead a group and communicate effectively to members with different roles and varying concerns. As the scope, schedule, and cost of a project can change frequently, the interviewer may ask you to role-play a few scenarios in which a project deadline changes or several group members leave the company.

Top Project Manager Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Can you tell me about a time when your stakeholders disagreed with you on a project?

How to answer
How to answer: Dealing with conflict in a project management role is expected. Strong candidates need to demonstrate how they help to foster cooperation and collaboration among all parties involved in a project. Describe situations in which you acted as a mediator, focusing on the actions you took in response and the results of your actions. Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) when describing the disagreement and how you achieved a resolution.
Question 2

Question #2: What is your approach to strategic project management?

How to answer
How to answer: A project manager needs to have a strategy for managing tasks and keeping others on schedule with their work. When answering this question, it's helpful to describe a situation in which you applied your strategic management method, took action, and maintained that strategy on various projects. Explain how you reached your project goals.
Question 3

Question #3: Has a project you managed ever failed?

How to answer
How to answer: Discussing your failures may be challenging in an interview, but hiring managers ask this question to understand your potential weaknesses and areas for improvement. Try to keep the conversation positive by talking about how you turned around a project, made changes during the course of a project, or improved the outcome.

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Provided with a business case and had 15 minutes to prepare to present plan and roadmap. Panel group presentation with various level within the organization coming in and out during the hour long in person interview. Business case was not representative of the type of work and job description I was interviewing for, was targeting soft skills evaluation.
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Senior Project Manager

Interviewed at Farmers Insurance Group

3.2★
Oct 11, 2017

Provided with a business case and had 15 minutes to prepare to present plan and roadmap. Panel group presentation with various level within the organization coming in and out during the hour long in person interview. Business case was not representative of the type of work and job description I was interviewing for, was targeting soft skills evaluation.

Started with wanting to know how I have delivered projects, "tell me about a time you lead a project" "what did you do" "how did you do it" what could you have done better". Asked a lot of questions like what sort of goals did you implement for yourself, tell me about a time you had to deal with conflict, tell me about a time you had a difference of opinion with someone, what would you have done differently etc etc. I would recommended to anyone to go down the line of speaking about a project (or time in your life) with lots of problems as it is probably better for the later question when you have to critique yourself - I fell into the trap of saying how brilliant this particular project was and when they asked what I would have done differently I didn't have uch to say! They ended with the benefits of social media question which I have seen someone else also got which I felt was really quite pointless.
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Assistant Project Manager (Grad Scheme)

Interviewed at Turner and Townsend

3.7★
Feb 5, 2016

Started with wanting to know how I have delivered projects, "tell me about a time you lead a project" "what did you do" "how did you do it" what could you have done better". Asked a lot of questions like what sort of goals did you implement for yourself, tell me about a time you had to deal with conflict, tell me about a time you had a difference of opinion with someone, what would you have done differently etc etc. I would recommended to anyone to go down the line of speaking about a project (or time in your life) with lots of problems as it is probably better for the later question when you have to critique yourself - I fell into the trap of saying how brilliant this particular project was and when they asked what I would have done differently I didn't have uch to say! They ended with the benefits of social media question which I have seen someone else also got which I felt was really quite pointless.

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