Project Manager Interview Questions : Part 2

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Project Manager Interview Questions,Senior Project Manager Interview Questions,Important Project Manager Interview Questions
• Tell me about yourself. (To avoid rambling or becoming flustered, plan your answer.)
• What are your strengths? (Make an exhaustive list and review it exhaustively before the interview.)
• What are your weaknesses? (What you say here can and will be used against you!)
• How would your current (or last) boss describe you?
• What were your boss's responsibilities? (Interviewers sometimes ask this question to prevent you from having the chance to claim that you did your boss's job. Be ready for it!)
• What's your opinion of them? (Never criticize your past or present boss in an interview. It just makes you look bad!)
• How would your co-workers or subordinates describe you professionally?* (Remember, now is not the time for modesty! Brag a little bit.)
• Why do you want to work for us?
• Why do you want to leave your present employer?
• Why should we hire you over the other finalists?
• What qualities or talents would you bring to the job?*
• Tell me about your accomplishments.
• What is your most important contribution to your last (or current) employer?
• How do you perform under deadline pressure? Give me an example.
• How do you react to criticism? (You try to learn from it, of course!)
• Describe a conflict or disagreement at work in which you were involved. How was it resolved?
• What are two of the biggest problems you've encountered at your job and how did you overcome them?
• Think of a major crisis you've faced at work and explain how you handled it.
• Give me an example of a risk that you took at your job (past or present) and how it turned out.
• What's your managerial style like?
• Have you ever hired employees; and, if so, have they lived up to your expectations?
• What type of performance problems have you encountered in people who report to you, and how did you motivate them to improve?
• Describe a typical day at your present (or last) job.
• What do you see yourself doing five years from now?
• What is project management?
• Is spending in IT projects constant through out the project?
• Who is a stakeholder?
• Can you explain project life cycle?
• Twist :- How many phases are there in software project?
• Are risk constant through out the project?
• Can you explain different software development life cycles?
• What is triple constraint triangle in project management?
• What is a project baselines?
• What is effort variance?
• How is normally a project management plan document organized?
• How do you estimate a project?
• What is a fish bone diagram?
• Twist:- What is Ishikawa diagram?
• What is pareto principle?
• Twist:- What is 80/20 principle?
• How do you handle change request?
• What is internal change request?
• What is difference between SITP and UTP in testing?
• What is the software you have used for project management?
• What are the metrics followed in project management?
• Twist: - What metrics will you look at in order to see the project is moving successfully?
• You have people in your team who do not meet there deadlines or do not perform what are the actions you will take?Twist :- Two of your resources have conflicts between them how would you sort it out?
• What is black box testing and White box testing?
• What's the difference between Unit testing, Assembly testing and Regression testing?
• What is V model in testing?
• How do you start a project?
• How did you do resource allocations?
• How will you do code reviews?
• What is CMMI?
• What are the five levels in CMMI?
• What is continuous and staged representation?
• Can you explain the process areas?

at 2/05/2011