Interview Preparation Notes for Project Manager Position at Honeywell
Round 1: Technical Screening
What are your experience and skills in project management and process improvements?
What are the tools and techniques you have used for supply chain optimization?
What are the challenges you faced in managing procurement and how did you address them?
What are your strategies in managing stakeholders and how did you ensure their satisfaction?
What are the challenges you faced in managing international projects and how did you address them?
What are the principles and practices you follow for people and project management?
What are the KPIs you have used to measure supply chain performance and how did you improve them?
What are your strategies in problem-solving and decision-making and what have been your successes and failures?
What are the trends and innovations you observe in supply chain and project management and how do you adapt to them?
What are the questions that you ask your team members to ensure effective communication and collaboration?
Round 2: Behavioral Interview
The questions in this round focus on the candidate's behavior in past experiences, to understand how they handle different situations. The answers should be given in Situation, Task, Action, Result (STAR) format.
Describe a time when your team faced a difficult challenge in meeting a project deadline. What was your role and how did you handle the situation?
Can you describe a time when you had to make a tough decision with limited information? What factors did you consider and what was the outcome?
Share an experience when you had to collaborate with a coworker who had a different working style, how did you handle it?
Tell me about a time when a project didn't go as planned. What was your role and how did you handle the situation?
How do you manage risks in your projects? Please provide an example.
Can you describe a time when you had to lead a team through a change? What was your approach and what was the outcome?
Can you discuss a time when you identified an efficiency issue within a project, what was the solution you provided and what was the result?
Tell me about a conflict you had with a team member or stakeholder and how did you resolve it?
What do you do when faced with unexpected challenges during a project? Provide an example.
Tell me about a successful project you managed from start to finish. What was your role, and what steps did you take to ensure its success?
Round 3: Coding Interview
This round assesses the candidate's technical skills in coding and problem-solving. Discuss Time and Space complexity for coding questions.
Write a function that reverses a string in place. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Write a program that takes an input string and determines if it's a palindrome. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Implement a function to check if a number is a prime number or not. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Write a function that calculates the factorial of a given number recursively. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Implement a sorting algorithm of your choice and discuss its time and space complexity.
Write a program to find the Fibonacci series of a given number. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Write a program that takes an input array and returns the second lowest and second highest numbers. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Implement a function that finds the maximum sum of consecutive sub-arrays in a given array. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Write a program to identify the first non-repeated character in a given string. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Implement a function that checks if two given strings are anagrams. Discuss the time and space complexity of your solution.
Round 4: Design Interview
This round assesses the candidate's design abilities, both high-level and low-level.
Design a simple supply chain management system to track inventory and procurement. This should include the data structures, algorithms, and technologies you would use.
Design an e-commerce website where users can search, purchase and manage their orders. Please consider functional and non-functional requirements.
Design a parking lot management system for a university. Please consider different types of vehicles, parking spaces, payment options, and other requirements.
Design a chatbot for a customer service system. What types of technologies would you use? What types of questions would it be able to answer?
Design a system for tracking and visualizing the environmental impact of a company's supply chain. Please consider what types of data would need to be tracked and visualized, and how you would go about creating the visualizations.
Design a system to manage an employee on-boarding process for a company. Please consider the different steps involved in the process and how they can be automated.
Design a system for tracking and managing the progress of a project. Please consider what types of data would need to be tracked and how that data would be visualized.
Design an algorithm for recommending products to a user based on their previous purchases. Discuss the data structures and technologies you would use to implement this system.
Design a system for detecting and preventing fraud in an online payment system. Please consider different types of fraud and how the system could identify and prevent them in real-time.
Design a system for optimizing a supply chain to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Please consider the different factors that could impact the supply chain, and how you would go about tracking and optimizing each of them.
Resume-based Questions
The following questions are based on the candidate's resume content.
What were the most complex supply chain problems you faced in your previous roles?
What were the outcomes of your improvements in procurement optimization?
What software tools and technologies have you used for supply chain management and procurement optimization?
What process improvement methodologies have you used in your previous roles and how did you apply them?
What were the challenges you faced in leading a cross-functional team and how did you overcome them?
Can you discuss the steps you took to implement Just-In-Time inventory management principles in your previous role?
Can you discuss the challenges you faced in development and deployment of material management systems in your previous role?
What were the outcomes of the IT automation projects you led in your most recent internship?
What was your role in the customized inventory management system you developed as an intern?
How has your Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification helped you in your previous roles?
What challenges did you face when implementing your PDCA approach, and how did you address them?