IBM Project Manager Interview Questions
Go Back1. What role does feedback play in your everyday life as a project manager?
2. What are you looking forward to learning at IBM?
3. How do you handle negative feedback from clients?
4. Describe a time in which you had to adjust to changes over which you had no control. How quickly were you able to adapt?
5. In your previous position, what specific skills or competencies did you seek out to better yourself and to help others better themselves?
6. How do you handle objections from stakeholders?
7. Describe a time when you were able to remove a serious roadblock preventing your team from making progress.
8. What is your experience in utilizing Agile frameworks? What do you like and dislike about them?
9. A project manager has left a client's project in your hands abruptly. How do you handle this transition?
10. What is your experience in process documentation? What role does it play in project management?
11. What kind of experience do you have managing budgets?
12. Describe a time when you had to persuade a co-worker to change their opinion or do something differently.
13. How would you describe your communication skills as a project manager?
14. You're bombarded with heated emails between your client and one of your colleagues. It looks like the client is expecting a deliverable that's outside of the contract. How would you proceed?
15. What is your experience interacting with and presenting to C-Level executives or senior leaders?
16. You are managing a project that's part of a larger program. How will you influence the program's overall success?
17. You're currently handling two top-priority projects that are likely to be extended. Another one has just been assigned, and it will definitely require a lot of time and attention. How do you approach the situation?
18. At the beginning of a project, you missed a major stakeholder in the project plan. Now, the project is well underway and you have to catch them up. What do you do to engage them?
19. A client is unhappy with the initial outcome of the project. How will you move forward and keep their confidence in you as the project manager?
20. Tell me about the most notable risk you have identified in a project.
21. Describe a time when you worked cross functionally on a project. Were you successful as the project manager?
22. Talk about your most recent experience in learning new software or technical tool. What was the tool and how much time did it take for you to understand its functions?
23. How would you handle client feedback that comes in after a milestone has been delivered, or, one that is possibly out of scope?
24. What do you like and dislike about working with technical-minded colleagues?
25. The project you're assigned to has undefined target metrics. Talk about how you might move this project along.