I have appeared for a few interviews for a Project Manager, have gone through the specifications of a good many more. What strikes me most in the personal interviews is so few people know what they want from the position.

The crux of the problem I guess is still companies do not understand the meaning of project management. The words Project Manager are just glorified senior developer positions with the added burden of hauling along a team of developers. To prove this, in my last two interviews, I was not asked a single question on team building or project management techniques. If you want to call it a technical interview, I wasn't asked anything other than my preferred language (out of C# or VB.Net) and whether I could code.



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