Amazon Project Manager Mock Interview
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Question 13 of 30
What do you do to ensure your project is on or below budget?
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Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
Amazon leaders don't get extra points for growing headcount, budget size, or fixed expense. When crafting your response, demonstrate how well you can plan and how you incorporate budget monitoring when project scoping. Mention common reasons for projects going over the budget, as well as ways that you have prevented budget overruns.
Maria Cheryl Harkins is a Talent Development Consultant with over a decade of experience in sourcing, qualifying, interviewing, testing, onboarding, and training.
"In my experience, planning beats mitigating, when it comes to budgets. It's always best to over-project the budget at the beginning by accounting for common budget overrun culprits like longer-than-expected labor hours, or unforeseen changes. This way, I have a Plan B or Plan C when they do come up. When they end up worse than projected, I can inform stakeholders as soon as I identify the risk. At the beginning of a project, I don't know what I don't know, so the best I can do is look at similar projects and prepare a plan for the worst-case scenario."
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