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Product Design Interview Questions

Review this list of 958 Product Design interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "Clarify → Mission / Landscape / Why → Users → Pain Points → Solutions → Evaluate Clarifying Questions / Assumptions: What kind of art are we focused on (Photography, digital art, physical art, sculpture, etc)? Assume we’re focused on physical paintings or sketches Is the goal of the product to allow users to view and interact with others art or create their own art? Enjoying art can come through both experiencing it and creating it so I want to clarify. **Let’s focus on experiencing a"

    Nikitha G. - "Clarify → Mission / Landscape / Why → Users → Pain Points → Solutions → Evaluate Clarifying Questions / Assumptions: What kind of art are we focused on (Photography, digital art, physical art, sculpture, etc)? Assume we’re focused on physical paintings or sketches Is the goal of the product to allow users to view and interact with others art or create their own art? Enjoying art can come through both experiencing it and creating it so I want to clarify. **Let’s focus on experiencing a"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Asana logoAsked at Asana 

    "Comprehend the situation: “When we say video streaming, do we mean watching videos such as movies and TV shows from devices using the internet?” Yes “Is it a fair assumption calling 65+ as seniors?” Yes “Any specific goal in mind?” Up to you “Timeline? constraints? “ None “Is this an extension of one of the existing streaming apps or a brand new one?” Brand new “Is there hardware needed for this app or will we be using the existing hardware and only developing the app?” You decide I’l"

    Nagi E. - "Comprehend the situation: “When we say video streaming, do we mean watching videos such as movies and TV shows from devices using the internet?” Yes “Is it a fair assumption calling 65+ as seniors?” Yes “Any specific goal in mind?” Up to you “Timeline? constraints? “ None “Is this an extension of one of the existing streaming apps or a brand new one?” Brand new “Is there hardware needed for this app or will we be using the existing hardware and only developing the app?” You decide I’l"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve the experience of moving to a new city?'
    +1

    " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"

    Ajinkya P. - " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"See full answer

    Product Design
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Clarifying Questions What do we mean by ‘improve’? Is there a certain goal that we are trying to attain? Is there a target user that we are going for? Any constraints or things to keep in mind when building this? Assumptions Only focused on google docs and not collaboration on other G-suite products such as PPT or sheets What is Google Docs? Web-based productivity tool that allows you to access your files from any computer through your gmail account. You can also share and"

    Esha - "Clarifying Questions What do we mean by ‘improve’? Is there a certain goal that we are trying to attain? Is there a target user that we are going for? Any constraints or things to keep in mind when building this? Assumptions Only focused on google docs and not collaboration on other G-suite products such as PPT or sheets What is Google Docs? Web-based productivity tool that allows you to access your files from any computer through your gmail account. You can also share and"See full answer

    Product Design
    Technical
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  • DoorDash logoAsked at DoorDash 

    "Clarifyig questons Why do we want to re-design the feature? are there any existing problem with the existing DM feature? -- you figure out Do we have any particular goal in mind which we want to achieve? related to Engagement, Session time etc? -- Think yourself When we say DMs, this includes P2P, Message to business, Message to an open account or you have something else in mind? -- Think yourself With that bieng said lets first understand what are the core use cases of the DM as a feature P"

    Shoaib H. - "Clarifyig questons Why do we want to re-design the feature? are there any existing problem with the existing DM feature? -- you figure out Do we have any particular goal in mind which we want to achieve? related to Engagement, Session time etc? -- Think yourself When we say DMs, this includes P2P, Message to business, Message to an open account or you have something else in mind? -- Think yourself With that bieng said lets first understand what are the core use cases of the DM as a feature P"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Walmart Labs logoAsked at Walmart Labs 

    "As a software engineer, there are a number of ways I could potentially contribute to improving Walmart.com. Here are a few ideas: Performance Optimization: Walmart.com is a complex web application with many moving parts. One potential area for improvement could be to optimize the performance of the site to make it load faster and feel more responsive. This could involve things like optimizing images, improving server response times, or reducing the number of HTTP requests required to load the"

    N N. - "As a software engineer, there are a number of ways I could potentially contribute to improving Walmart.com. Here are a few ideas: Performance Optimization: Walmart.com is a complex web application with many moving parts. One potential area for improvement could be to optimize the performance of the site to make it load faster and feel more responsive. This could involve things like optimizing images, improving server response times, or reducing the number of HTTP requests required to load the"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • +2

    "Assumption #1: the deal is signed and the customer now will being the process of moving to GCP Assumption #2 : the deal includes Iaas as well as Paas (App Engine) - moving apps from on prem to cloud Objective : Design a product that will help the customer onboard and successfully plan the move to GCP. Customer is using on premise and is new to cloud. Lets assume the tool should include the roadmap planning too ie decisions such as moving all vs some applications etc . As in any onboarding to"

    Aruna D. - "Assumption #1: the deal is signed and the customer now will being the process of moving to GCP Assumption #2 : the deal includes Iaas as well as Paas (App Engine) - moving apps from on prem to cloud Objective : Design a product that will help the customer onboard and successfully plan the move to GCP. Customer is using on premise and is new to cloud. Lets assume the tool should include the roadmap planning too ie decisions such as moving all vs some applications etc . As in any onboarding to"See full answer

    Product Design
    Product Strategy
  • Product Manager
    Product Design
    +1 more
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve Headspace?'
    +35

    "It would be nice if the final Google Docs link can be shared somewhere, so we can access it for reference with ease."

    Dan D. - "It would be nice if the final Google Docs link can be shared somewhere, so we can access it for reference with ease."See full answer

    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience. 2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general 3) Market - US 4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B. Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience. User-segments: People who use i"

    Ashvini B. - "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience. 2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general 3) Market - US 4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B. Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience. User-segments: People who use i"See full answer

    Product Designer
    Product Design
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "Clarifying questions Key value proposition of the product: targeted search engine for kids to search the internet Target users: kids below 18 years of age Target geography: USA Form factor: web app Target market Kids (largely school students) are now increasingly using the internet for educational purposes to perform assignments, collaborate on projects etc. A search engine is a core need to access the internet for this audience and is needed quite frequently - almost every time a"

    Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions Key value proposition of the product: targeted search engine for kids to search the internet Target users: kids below 18 years of age Target geography: USA Form factor: web app Target market Kids (largely school students) are now increasingly using the internet for educational purposes to perform assignments, collaborate on projects etc. A search engine is a core need to access the internet for this audience and is needed quite frequently - almost every time a"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "To enhance customer adoption of JPMorgan Chase's Payments Developer Portal, I propose a feature called "Guided Onboarding and Custom Integration Paths." Feature Overview Guided Onboarding: A step-by-step onboarding process for new users that includes interactive tutorials, video walkthroughs, and a personalized dashboard based on their needs and use cases. Users can select their business type and goals (e.g., e-commerce, retail, fintech) to receive tailored content and API recomm"

    Lavanya S. - "To enhance customer adoption of JPMorgan Chase's Payments Developer Portal, I propose a feature called "Guided Onboarding and Custom Integration Paths." Feature Overview Guided Onboarding: A step-by-step onboarding process for new users that includes interactive tutorials, video walkthroughs, and a personalized dashboard based on their needs and use cases. Users can select their business type and goals (e.g., e-commerce, retail, fintech) to receive tailored content and API recomm"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Post Booking Journey – Starts from making the payment for the ticket & ends at collecting the baggage at the belt Different Steps, which are involved and could go wrong: Payment gateway is not responding and the last Payment made but booking not confirmed Ticket gets cancelled but money is not refunded / money is debited but ticket is not refunded Flight gets rescheduled / Cancelled / Delayed Huge Qs at check in counter / Security Want to purchase a service onboard but currency not"

    Anonymous Gazelle - "Post Booking Journey – Starts from making the payment for the ticket & ends at collecting the baggage at the belt Different Steps, which are involved and could go wrong: Payment gateway is not responding and the last Payment made but booking not confirmed Ticket gets cancelled but money is not refunded / money is debited but ticket is not refunded Flight gets rescheduled / Cancelled / Delayed Huge Qs at check in counter / Security Want to purchase a service onboard but currency not"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "Clarifying questions: Is this a standalone product or a Meta integrated product? Which region is this for? US or another region or global? Is this for a county run library or a more informal group community library? Assumptions: It's a meta integrated product US based system group run community library Let's see if a lending library fits into Meta's company mission to build community and bring people closer together. Yes, a lending library does build community by helping peop"

    Hari S. - "Clarifying questions: Is this a standalone product or a Meta integrated product? Which region is this for? US or another region or global? Is this for a county run library or a more informal group community library? Assumptions: It's a meta integrated product US based system group run community library Let's see if a lending library fits into Meta's company mission to build community and bring people closer together. Yes, a lending library does build community by helping peop"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • +5

    "Me: First, let's design our product and then we will calculate the estimated amount of units sold. Before we begin, is there anything specific about this refrigerator, is this a 'smart refrigerator'? Interviewer: Yes, you can consider this is a smart refrigerator but the overall design is up to you. Me: Thank you, one more question, do we have a specific user in mind? Younger people? Retirees? Interviewer: No, you can select the user base based on your prioritization, but theoretically it cou"

    Talles S. - "Me: First, let's design our product and then we will calculate the estimated amount of units sold. Before we begin, is there anything specific about this refrigerator, is this a 'smart refrigerator'? Interviewer: Yes, you can consider this is a smart refrigerator but the overall design is up to you. Me: Thank you, one more question, do we have a specific user in mind? Younger people? Retirees? Interviewer: No, you can select the user base based on your prioritization, but theoretically it cou"See full answer

    Product Design
    Estimation
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Uber logoAsked at Uber 

    "UberPool Product built for Uber Uber is a network of drivers & riders that allow to transport riders from A to B UberPool UberPool product solves for 2-3 riders to take a trip to a destination that works for everyone. It helps with reduced cost for riders, reduced emissions, make it faster to reach destination during high traffic hours makes it harder to find a ride --> until you find users willing to go to same destination "

    Suraj - "UberPool Product built for Uber Uber is a network of drivers & riders that allow to transport riders from A to B UberPool UberPool product solves for 2-3 riders to take a trip to a destination that works for everyone. It helps with reduced cost for riders, reduced emissions, make it faster to reach destination during high traffic hours makes it harder to find a ride --> until you find users willing to go to same destination "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Step - 1 Ask any clarifying questions you'd have Is there any particular reality show that we are talking about? (Assuming "The Great Indian Kapil Sharma Show" for this answer that there is no particular reality show that we are going with rather a general answer) Are we talking about any particular demographics? (Assuming we are going to launch this game globally and for any specific country or city). Step - 2 Apply a Product Design Framework (let's go with CIRCLES) C(Com"

    Pankhuri T. - "Step - 1 Ask any clarifying questions you'd have Is there any particular reality show that we are talking about? (Assuming "The Great Indian Kapil Sharma Show" for this answer that there is no particular reality show that we are going with rather a general answer) Are we talking about any particular demographics? (Assuming we are going to launch this game globally and for any specific country or city). Step - 2 Apply a Product Design Framework (let's go with CIRCLES) C(Com"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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