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"When hiring a technical manager, an employer will look for candidates with the management skills and industry knowledge to oversee company projects that require members to have large amounts of technical knowledge, usually in the form of programming and software development. Some of the interview questions you may be asked will target your management experience and philosophy while others will focus on your understanding of the technical processes you will be working with in the project."

Top Technical Manager Interview Questions & How To Answer

Question 1

Question #1: Have you ever dealt with staff members who were resistant to new technology or technological processes? How did you handle the situation?

How to answer
How to answer: A technical manager often introduces and rolls out new technology products and processes to an organization's staff members, so it's important to know how to do so in a positive way. When answering this question, try to think about a specific situation in which you dealt with resistant staff and how you interacted with those individuals in a positive way. As you describe the situation, use the STAR method: Situation, Task, Action, Result. This question allows you to describe your problem-solving and communication skills.
Question 2

Question #2: Describe your process for researching and implementing new technology.

How to answer
How to answer: When answering a question about your process, consider a specific situation in which you researched and/or implemented a new technology in a previous role. Describe the steps you took and why you took each step, as well as the outcome of your research and rollout processes.
Question 3

Question #3: How did the last company you worked for benefit from your technical expertise?

How to answer
How to answer: Answering a question about your technical expertise allows you to elaborate on your technical skills and strengths and how they benefited those around you in your previous role. Describe specific situations that highlight the importance of your work, such as new technologies that you implemented or rolled out that led to significant improvements or positive results.

10,269 technical manager interview questions shared by candidates

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Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Feb 21, 2016

1. What is Cloud Computing ? 2. What is Salesforce? 3. What is Production? 4. What is production url? 5. What is sandbox? 6. What is sandbox url? 7. What are the types of Sandboxes? 8. What is Developer sandbox? 9. What is developer pro sandbox? 10. What is partial data sandbox? 11. What is Full copy sandbox? Configuration 1. What is Track Field History? 2. What are the Activities in Salesforce? 3. How to Rename the tab? 4. How to display multiple columns after clicking on the tab? 5. What is the difference between ISBLANK() AND ISNULL()? 6. What is dependent picklist? 7. What is the architecture of the salesforce 8. What is the difference between 15 digit and 18 digit id in Salesforce? 9. What is Record Type? 10. What is the difference between detail page and edit page? 11. What is out of box functionality? 12. What are the type of tabs? 13. What is validation rule? 14. There are two fields, if the user populate two field values if we combine those values uniqueness should be maintained, how to achieve this without coding? 15. What are Governor Limits? 16. For which data type we can enable external id? 17. What is list view? 18. What is Inline editing? 19. How to disable Inline editing? 20. What is Enhanced list view? 21. What is search layout? 22. What is mini page layout and how to enable? 23. What is lead process? 24. What is sales process? 25. What is Support process? 26. What is web-to-lead? 27. What is Queue? 28. What is public group? 29. What are the Assignment rules? 30. What are Auto-Response Rules? 31. What are the Escalation rules?

What is the most common thing you have been criticized for in your professional career? What was the most recent feedback from your current/most recent manager in your performance review? How do you intend to improve it?
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Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
May 7, 2016

What is the most common thing you have been criticized for in your professional career? What was the most recent feedback from your current/most recent manager in your performance review? How do you intend to improve it?

Questions were either focused on my providing an example of a particular situation, or on my ability to approach a new problem statement/space that they presented. The latter was often very open-ended and ambiguous in initial presentation, and a good portion of the interview was a combination of how I would better define the problem space and the type of solution that would be needed, combined with more detailed plans as we dove into subparts of the problem (with more data though not all relevant).
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Technical Program Manager II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Aug 2, 2016

Questions were either focused on my providing an example of a particular situation, or on my ability to approach a new problem statement/space that they presented. The latter was often very open-ended and ambiguous in initial presentation, and a good portion of the interview was a combination of how I would better define the problem space and the type of solution that would be needed, combined with more detailed plans as we dove into subparts of the problem (with more data though not all relevant).

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