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Senior executives and HR managers recognize project management as indispensable to business success. They know that skilled and credentialed project managers are among their most valuable resources. The Project Management Institute reports in a survey that in the U.S., over $122 million gets wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. When it comes to hiring qualified project managers, things get a little tricky, and candidates are reviewed in several ways.

Interviewing project management for open positions is something I have had to do but I don’t find it easy. How do you know what to ask? And how do you use what is normally a really short period of time to let the candidate show themselves in the best possible light?

As an active Project Manager and PMP who is often asked to interview candidates, my focus is to find out if they will be able to complete those “on time and under budget” projects while keeping the team calm, cool, and productive.

Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book on landing a product management role in startups or bigger tech companies.

This is a straight-to-the-point, distilled list of technical interview Do's and Don'ts, mainly for algorithmic interviews. Some of these may apply to only phone screens or whiteboard interviews, but most will apply to both. I revise this list before each of my interviews to remind myself of them and eventually internalized all of them to the point I do not have to rely on it anymore.

In order to help candidates throughout the preparation process, we gathered 30 commonly asked interview questions and answers for project manager candidates and 10 questions you should ask the employer.

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