Project Manager interview questions

Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you know, and what did you do that week?

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Tell me about a time an engineering estimate turned out to be optimistic. How did you adjust the plan?

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you know, what did you do, and what was the result?

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Describe a time you cut scope to protect a date. How did you decide what to cut?

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Tell me about a risk you raised that nobody else believed in. What happened?

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Tell me about a time an estimate was wrong and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you know, and what did you do that week?

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Tell me about an engineering estimate that was optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you first know, and what did you do that week?

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Tell me about an engineering estimate that turned out to be optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you first know, and what did you do that week?

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Tell me about an estimate that turned out to be optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you know, and what did you do that week?

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Tell me about an engineering estimate that was optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you first know, and what did you do that week?

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Why do you want to run projects for this team in particular?

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Tell me about an estimate that turned out to be optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you first know, and what did you do that week?

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Why do you want to run projects for this team?

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Tell me about an estimate that turned out to be optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you first know, and what did you do that week?

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Tell me about an estimate that turned out to be optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that slipped. When did you first know, and what did you do that week?

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Tell me about an estimate that turned out to be optimistic and how you adjusted the plan.

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Tell me about a project that went off track. What did you do first?

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Tell me about a time you had to deliver through people who did not report to you.

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Two teams disagree about who owns a deliverable. What do you do?

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Tell me about a stakeholder who did not want the project to succeed.

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Describe a time you were wrong about a call you made on a project.

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How would you plan a launch that depends on three teams with different priorities and one hard deadline?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought was unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the schedule cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on three teams with different priorities?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on three teams with different priorities and one fixed date?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened next?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on a hardware team, a software team and an outside supplier with one fixed date?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on three teams with different priorities and one fixed date?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on a hardware team, a software team and a supplier with one fixed date?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on a factory team, a software team and a supplier with one fixed date?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on three teams with different priorities and a fixed compliance deadline?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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How would you plan a launch that depends on a hardware team, a software team and a supplier with one fixed date?

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Describe a risk you raised early that others thought unlikely. What happened?

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How do you decide what to cut when the date cannot move and the scope will not fit?

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What do you do when a team keeps reporting green and then misses?

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How do you run a scope change request that the sponsor wants and the team cannot absorb?

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What is in your risk register at the start of a project, and how often do you revisit it?

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Walk me through how you keep a sponsor informed without hiding bad news or drowning them in detail.

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Describe a disagreement between two teams you had to resolve to keep a project moving.

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Walk me through how you keep a sponsor informed without hiding bad news or burying them in detail.

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How would you plan a release that depends on three teams with different priorities and one fixed date?

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Walk me through how you keep a sponsor informed without hiding bad news or burying them in detail.

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Walk me through how you keep a sponsor informed without hiding bad news or burying them in detail.

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Walk me through how you keep a sponsor informed without hiding bad news or burying them in detail.

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Here is a plan with a flaw in it. Find the flaw before proposing a fix.

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Walk me through how you keep a sponsor informed without hiding bad news or burying them in detail.

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How do you build a schedule when the team gives you estimates you do not believe?

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What does your project kickoff cover, and what do you refuse to start without?

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How do you handle a deadline that was committed before you joined?

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Walk me through how you identify the critical path on a plan you inherited.

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What goes in your weekly status report, and who reads it?

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How do you know a project is slipping before the milestone is missed?

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Which metrics do you actually track, and which do you ignore?

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When have you recommended stopping a project, and what happened?

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How do you handle a sponsor who keeps changing priorities between check-ins?

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Describe how you delivered bad news to an executive. What did you lead with?

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How do you handle a team member whose work is consistently late?

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How do you say no to a request from someone senior to you?

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