Coinbase Program Manager Interview Questions
Go Back1. Our ideal program manager is collaborative, accountable, organized, and customer obsessed. How would you rate yourself in these areas?
2. What does economic freedom represent to you?
3. At Coinbase, we only hire candidates we feel can raise the bar. What qualities do you feel you can offer to help improve the teams you will be working with?
4. What do you feel you could do to "Enable Belonging to Everyone" at Coinbase?
5. Do you have experience managing geographically distributed teams?
6. What project management applications do you have experience with?
7. What would "end to end execution" look like in your role as a program manager at Coinbase?
8. Describe your level of expertise in developing processes and modeling them.
9. What are some methods in which you have helped engineers or other technical team members understand the perspectives of your customers or stakeholders?
10. What certifications do you have that are applicable to the program manager role?
11. What experience do you have with user interaction design standards?
12. What excites you the most about working at Coinbase?
13. How do you educate yourself on crypto trends and changes?
14. What information would you include in a post-launch report for a project or a series of integrated projects?
15. Please describe a customer experience improvement a team you led was responsible for.
16. What types of projects and programs do you have experience leading?
17. What business intelligence software do you have experience using?
18. Describe a time when you were unable to deliver a project on-time.
19. How would you define the relationship between a vision, goals, and strategy?
20. What are some methods you use to form strong relationships with stakeholders?
21. Describe a group of cross-functional teams you were responsible for as a program manager.
22. The regulatory standards for trading through Coinbase are constantly evolving. Can you describe at a high-level what they are now and how you plan to stay up-to-date?
23. What is your upward communication style?
24. What is the difference between project management and program management?
25. What is a blockchain?
26. What does it mean to have "user empathy"?
27. As a program manager at Coinbase, you will be responsible for working with product managers. What are the typical responsibilities of product managers?
28. What is your leadership style?
29. Imagine that you were in the midst of a conflict with your manager and you were asked to "default to trust". What would that mean to you in this scenario?
30. Describe a high-stress situation you were involved in as a program manager and how it was resolved.
31. What are some of the methods you could use at Coinbase to gather customer feedback on a regular basis?
32. How would you inspire positive energy within the teams you have responsibility for at Coinbase?
33. Imagine you are told by the engineering team that a feature that will greatly improve the customer experience is in conflict with other features the engineers feel are more important. How do you approach this conflict?