Sr Program Manager Interview Questions

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They asked behavioral questions aligned with Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Use real-life examples from your past experience, support them with data and measurable results, and structure your answers using the **STAR format** (Situation, Task, Action, Result).
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Sr Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 6, 2025

They asked behavioral questions aligned with Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Use real-life examples from your past experience, support them with data and measurable results, and structure your answers using the **STAR format** (Situation, Task, Action, Result).

The interview was broken down into mostly 2 parts: System Design and Situational questions based on Amazon Leadership principles. 3 interviewers asked me system design questions like: 1. design a database schema for a certain configuration manager 2. Design a service that can handle hundreds of thousand transactions to be executed at a very specific time of the day (think about scale and error conditions) 3. Another question was about a real life problem that the interviewing team was having. I was asked to come up with a viable solution, design the system for the solution and define the APIs for each box (service) in my solution. The other 3 interviewers mostly asked situational questions based on 1 or more Amazon leadership principles. Note, the interviewer will not reveal which leadership principle they are probing on.
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Senior Technical Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Sep 18, 2018

The interview was broken down into mostly 2 parts: System Design and Situational questions based on Amazon Leadership principles. 3 interviewers asked me system design questions like: 1. design a database schema for a certain configuration manager 2. Design a service that can handle hundreds of thousand transactions to be executed at a very specific time of the day (think about scale and error conditions) 3. Another question was about a real life problem that the interviewing team was having. I was asked to come up with a viable solution, design the system for the solution and define the APIs for each box (service) in my solution. The other 3 interviewers mostly asked situational questions based on 1 or more Amazon leadership principles. Note, the interviewer will not reveal which leadership principle they are probing on.

-How did you overcome an internal obstacle on at work that required a sacrifice? -What is something that you have done at work out of your own initiative that led to a significant impact? -Why Amazon? Why AWS? -Deep dive on some of the projects listed on my resume, and how I approached them
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AWS Cloudpath Senior Program Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Nov 14, 2018

-How did you overcome an internal obstacle on at work that required a sacrifice? -What is something that you have done at work out of your own initiative that led to a significant impact? -Why Amazon? Why AWS? -Deep dive on some of the projects listed on my resume, and how I approached them

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