Last updated on October 18th, 2024 at 08:10 am
Ace The Technical Program Management Interview !
Self-Paced
Everything You Would Need To Know To Ace TPM Interviews !
Introduction
- Introduction
- On A Personal Note
Technical Program Manager 101
- Introduction (1:51)
- Roles & Responsibilities Of A TPM (14:43)
- Skills Needed for a Technical Program Manager (12:54)
- Types of Technical Program Managers (19:12)
- Moving up as a Technical Program Manager (15:16)
- How to Land A TPM Job (20:17)
1 hr 24min
The Exclusive TPM Community
- Live Webinars Where You Can Ask Questions
- Slack Channel For Group Discussions
- Other TPM Communities
- Free Peer to Peer Mock Interviews Community
- Mario’s Daily Jobs Posts: During Covid
- Where to look for jobs?
- Understanding What a TPM Does From Various People
- Book Recommendations
100+ Interview Questions with Answering Guidance
- Interview Answering Methodologies
- 25+ Program Management Interview Questions & Answers
- 25+ Agile/Scrum Interview Questions & Answers
- 35+ Senior/Principal Level TPM Questions
- More Program Management Questions
- 10 Strategic Program Management Questions & Answers
- Traits To Exhibit When Aiming For A Higher Level TPM Role
Amazon Interview Questions
- Amazon Alexa Team’s TPM Full Loop (Design & LP) Questions
- Understanding Amazon’s 14 Leadership Principles
- MAANG Telephone Screening Questions
- 140+ Behavioral Questions & Answers That Tie Into Amazon’s Leadership Principles
- 20+ Fundamental Questions Asked at Amazon
- Amazon TPMs Describing “What Makes a Great TPM at Amazon?”
- Facebook / Meta: TPM Interview Questions
- Apple Interview TPM Questions
- Questions to Ask Your Interviewer
TPM Interviews: Candidate Experience At MMAANG
- Interviewing at Meta: Candidate Experience Summary
- Interviewing at Microsoft: Candidate Experience Summary
- Interviewing at Apple: Candidate Experience Summary
- Interviewing at Amazon: Candidate Experience Summary
- Interviewing at Netflix: Candidate Experience Summary
- Interviewing at Google: Candidate Experience Summary
Resume Tips & General Interviewing Guidance
- TPM Resume Snippets & Pointers
- General Pointers and Tips
- Full Day Interview Loop
- Tips From People at FANG
- How to Find Companies ?
- Interviewing in a Virtual Environment
An Introduction to Agile
- What is Agile?
- Agile vs Waterfall: Similarities and Differences
- Key Agile Metrics
- How To Frame Better User Stories
An Introduction to Scrum & Kanban
- Scrum Fundamentals
- When to Use Kanban and When Not To
- Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe (Overview)
- Agile Quiz: 30+ Questions & Answers
An Introduction to Project Management
- PMBOK Process Groups Explained
- Where & How to Use Pareto Analysis
- Project Risk Management According to the PMBOK
- Managing Critical Path & Float in A Program
Architecture: Principles, Patterns & Concepts
- What happens when you hit www.google.com ?
- General Overview of System Architecture
- Single Tier, Two Tier & Multi tier Applications
- Patterns: Backends For Frontends
- Web Application Architecture Components
- Load Balancer Basics
- Messaging Queues
- Kafka – Messaging Queues
- Pub-Sub Architecture
- What is an Event-Driven Architecture?
- HTTP Push & Pull
- Polling vs SSE vs WebSocket— How to choose the right one
- A/B Testing
- Recommendation Systems: Using Various Filtering Techniques
- Serverless Architecture
- Service Mesh: MIcroservice Communication
All About API's
- API Basics
- API: Use RESTful URLs & Actions
- CRUD Operations
- Microservices Basics
- Microservice Patterns
Databases
- Database Basics
- RDBMS Basics
- Popular RDBMS
- Database sharding explained
- Consistency, Availability& Partition Tolerance: CAP Theorem
NoSQL Brief Overview
- Why NoSQL?
- Cassandra DB
- Distributed Database
- Graph Database
- Document Database
Caching
- An Introduction To Caching
- Memcache
- Content Delivery Network – CDN
System Design: Links to Various Solutions
- Recommended Reading
- WhatsApp System Design: Approach I
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- How to go about monitoring your applications ?
Application Security
- IMPORTANT NOTE
- Getting ed with Web Application Security
- Secure Network Firewall
- SQL Injection
- The Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability: Definition and Prevention
- Securing Web Applications
Big Data: Fundamental Concepts
- What is Big Data?
- What is Hadoop?
- MapReduce: Introduction
- What is a Data Lake?
Cloud Basics
- Why Move To The Cloud
- Cloud Computing Models & Their Evolution
- Cloud Basic Building Blocks
- High Availability On The Cloud
Cloud Principles
- Reasons To Move To The Cloud
- Let’s s With The Basics
- Introduction to Cloud Native Principles
- Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling & Multi-Tenancy
- Application Migration Strategies
Operating on The Cloud
- What is DevOps?
- Operational Excellence on the Cloud
- Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery
Security on The Cloud
- Security In a Multi-tenant Environment
- Security On the Cloud – Design Principles
- Basics of Securing Your Cloud
Understanding Cloud Architecture
- The Well Architected Framework
- Best Practices for the Cloud
- Scaling On The Cloud
- Scale Your Web Application — One Step at a Time
- Reliability on The Cloud
- Understanding Elasticity on the Cloud
- Performance Efficiency on the Cloud
Mario Gerard
A Principal Technical Program Manager and have been in the tech industry for over 14 years. I am an active blogger and podcast host. I have interviewed over 200 TPMs and have a good understanding of what most organizations look for when they hire TPMs.
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