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Note, this is for an EPM role on the SPG group. As such, there are no technical questions or coding involved in the on-site interview. The interviews were more of a casual conversation and less of an interrogation. After 6 hours, I had lost my voice but enjoyed speaking with all the interviewers and looked forward to the opportunity of working with them. - Review resume and experience. - How do you think about success and failure in a program? - How do we call to deprecate a program? - How do you build a roadmap? - How do you work with engineers to execute on that roadmap? Develop requirements? - Overall project design, status reporting. - Provide an example of a problem with no clear solution. - Provide an example of a project/program that had the most overlap. Discuss the profile lifecycle, from end to end. - Describe the program management process in one of your previous roles.
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Engineering Program Manager (EPM)

Interviewed at Apple

4.1★
Jun 21, 2022

Note, this is for an EPM role on the SPG group. As such, there are no technical questions or coding involved in the on-site interview. The interviews were more of a casual conversation and less of an interrogation. After 6 hours, I had lost my voice but enjoyed speaking with all the interviewers and looked forward to the opportunity of working with them. - Review resume and experience. - How do you think about success and failure in a program? - How do we call to deprecate a program? - How do you build a roadmap? - How do you work with engineers to execute on that roadmap? Develop requirements? - Overall project design, status reporting. - Provide an example of a problem with no clear solution. - Provide an example of a project/program that had the most overlap. Discuss the profile lifecycle, from end to end. - Describe the program management process in one of your previous roles.

Team members requested me to draw Network architectures on white board. Tech team members were asking about 1. CDMA (1X) theoretical data rate (not regular data rate) 2. LTE activation, call flow, bandwidth 3. Scenario based questions (Network/Customer issues) 4. What do you like in iPhone 5 and what new features do you suggest to add 5. Examples of dealing with difficult employees 6. Examples of Pro-activeness 7. CDMA channels (FWD- Pilot, Sync,etc) and its purpose 8. Why Apple (customized answer -not regular one) ?
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Engineering Program Manager

Interviewed at Apple

4.1★
Dec 30, 2012

Team members requested me to draw Network architectures on white board. Tech team members were asking about 1. CDMA (1X) theoretical data rate (not regular data rate) 2. LTE activation, call flow, bandwidth 3. Scenario based questions (Network/Customer issues) 4. What do you like in iPhone 5 and what new features do you suggest to add 5. Examples of dealing with difficult employees 6. Examples of Pro-activeness 7. CDMA channels (FWD- Pilot, Sync,etc) and its purpose 8. Why Apple (customized answer -not regular one) ?

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