Product Design Interview Questions

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    "Clarifying/Requirements House hunting is something I'm familiar with as someone who has rented, owned, and invested in the past. When I was looking for a place to live, the stage of where my life plays an important factor in determining how I look for a place. Before I start, I would like to ask some clarifying questions for better context and understanding. Did FB release any app related to house hunting - No, this would be a completely new feature. Will this be a stand-alone or"

    Christopher K. - "Clarifying/Requirements House hunting is something I'm familiar with as someone who has rented, owned, and invested in the past. When I was looking for a place to live, the stage of where my life plays an important factor in determining how I look for a place. Before I start, I would like to ask some clarifying questions for better context and understanding. Did FB release any app related to house hunting - No, this would be a completely new feature. Will this be a stand-alone or"See full answer

    Product Design
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "Goals; Customer engagement/ acquisition; Persona: 60-70; User journey: Selecting the right flight → Adding details → Selecting the best coupon for payment; Web-Check in; At the airport: Luggage check-in; Boarding; Flight Travel; Arrival: Collecting the luggage from belt; I would be focusing on the first two steps: Selecting right flight + and web check-in → That seems the most challenging aspect an elderly; Pain Points/ Challenges: Selecting the right flight (Duration/ Pric"

    Shanti informatics - "Goals; Customer engagement/ acquisition; Persona: 60-70; User journey: Selecting the right flight → Adding details → Selecting the best coupon for payment; Web-Check in; At the airport: Luggage check-in; Boarding; Flight Travel; Arrival: Collecting the luggage from belt; I would be focusing on the first two steps: Selecting right flight + and web check-in → That seems the most challenging aspect an elderly; Pain Points/ Challenges: Selecting the right flight (Duration/ Pric"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "To improve the passenger experience at a major metropolitan airport, I would focus on streamlining the pre-arrival, arrival, and post-flight stages of their journey. Pre-arrival, we could integrate flight details into the Uber app and provide predictive ETAs to help passengers plan better. At the airport, we could partner with authorities to create dedicated drop-off and pickup zones, along with clear in-app navigation to reduce confusion. Post-flight, we could implement dynamic pickup zones, vi"

    Prashant S. - "To improve the passenger experience at a major metropolitan airport, I would focus on streamlining the pre-arrival, arrival, and post-flight stages of their journey. Pre-arrival, we could integrate flight details into the Uber app and provide predictive ETAs to help passengers plan better. At the airport, we could partner with authorities to create dedicated drop-off and pickup zones, along with clear in-app navigation to reduce confusion. Post-flight, we could implement dynamic pickup zones, vi"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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    Product Design
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  • 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
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  • "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
  • Paytm logoAsked at Paytm 
    Backend Engineer
    Product Design
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  • Pinterest logoAsked at Pinterest 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "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
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'Design a high-tech gym.'
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    "[2:53 pm, 02/12/2021] Mayank: Before we deep dive into brainstorming the solution I go ahead and make few assumptions for clarifying questions: Step-1- Framing a problem 🎯Why users go to gym? To relieve stress by doing exercise To maintain their body To reduce their weight To remain active To make good physique 🎯Who goes to gym? Couples Group of friends Individuals Here we are trying to design high tech gym so it means we are looking to create good experience-and"

    Mayank S. - "[2:53 pm, 02/12/2021] Mayank: Before we deep dive into brainstorming the solution I go ahead and make few assumptions for clarifying questions: Step-1- Framing a problem 🎯Why users go to gym? To relieve stress by doing exercise To maintain their body To reduce their weight To remain active To make good physique 🎯Who goes to gym? Couples Group of friends Individuals Here we are trying to design high tech gym so it means we are looking to create good experience-and"See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Can you clarify how we define cyberbullying? To me, it means negative or abusive content targeted towards an individual or a group. This can be in the form or text or media. Lets talk about Reddit as a product: To enable positive discussions on diverse topics. Did I miss anything here? Lets talk about users here: We have: Teenagers: 13 - 19 years old Millennials: 20 - 39 years old Gen X and Baby Boomers: 40+ I think teenagers are the most vulnerable and the highest priority group for this use"

    Sunflower - "Can you clarify how we define cyberbullying? To me, it means negative or abusive content targeted towards an individual or a group. This can be in the form or text or media. Lets talk about Reddit as a product: To enable positive discussions on diverse topics. Did I miss anything here? Lets talk about users here: We have: Teenagers: 13 - 19 years old Millennials: 20 - 39 years old Gen X and Baby Boomers: 40+ I think teenagers are the most vulnerable and the highest priority group for this use"See full answer

    Product Design
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  • Lyft logoAsked at Lyft 
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    "I would ask what are the currently supported modes of transport. Assuming cars, luxury cars, transit. Bike and scooter is off limits. Also assuming Lyft is available only in the US currently. Then I would start off with the Goal. Why does Lyft want to launch a new mode of transport. Assuming possible reasons in order of priority: 1) To gain market share 2) To gain new users (riders/drivers) 3) Improve experience of users (riders/drivers) Do we have restrictions on country that we can l"

    Unicorn 2. - "I would ask what are the currently supported modes of transport. Assuming cars, luxury cars, transit. Bike and scooter is off limits. Also assuming Lyft is available only in the US currently. Then I would start off with the Goal. Why does Lyft want to launch a new mode of transport. Assuming possible reasons in order of priority: 1) To gain market share 2) To gain new users (riders/drivers) 3) Improve experience of users (riders/drivers) Do we have restrictions on country that we can l"See full answer

    Product Design
    Product Strategy
  • Google Cloud (GCP) logoAsked at Google Cloud (GCP) 

    "This is a product design question in which we have explored both hardware and software solution I think in this age of advance technology, blind people deserve much more. There are so many beautiful landscapes and sceneries in the world which are totally inaccessible to the blind people. It would be great if we would be able to provide that kind of experience to them. Clarification questions : Shailesh : When we are building camera, so are we thinking of any digital app or the physical"

    Anonymous Muskox - "This is a product design question in which we have explored both hardware and software solution I think in this age of advance technology, blind people deserve much more. There are so many beautiful landscapes and sceneries in the world which are totally inaccessible to the blind people. It would be great if we would be able to provide that kind of experience to them. Clarification questions : Shailesh : When we are building camera, so are we thinking of any digital app or the physical"See full answer

    Product Design
  • Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • "Clarification questions: What is the time frame we want to build this? MVP 6 months What markets and geos are we targeting? e.g. developed markets and scope it to just US and canada Are we targeting any particular meta platform ? facebook, IG, whatsapp or i can pick ? Across mobile and web platforms. Yes Alignment with Meta's mission and vision and discusison on Product dynamics itself Meta's mission to empower people to build communities and bring the wo"

    Samuel S. - "Clarification questions: What is the time frame we want to build this? MVP 6 months What markets and geos are we targeting? e.g. developed markets and scope it to just US and canada Are we targeting any particular meta platform ? facebook, IG, whatsapp or i can pick ? Across mobile and web platforms. Yes Alignment with Meta's mission and vision and discusison on Product dynamics itself Meta's mission to empower people to build communities and bring the wo"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Video answer for 'How would you improve Google Drive?'

    "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"

    Anonymous Muskox - "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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    "Clarifying questions: Q: So FB locals is a standalone app that has reviews of local businesses? What is the current state of the product? A: Yes. It recently relaunched and branded. Facebooks mission is to connect people and help them build community, FB local fits into this by using the power of the large social network to surface businesses and events and uses signals such as reviews to build trust and provide value. So its of the utmost importance that the reviews are authentic. Goal: I"

    Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: Q: So FB locals is a standalone app that has reviews of local businesses? What is the current state of the product? A: Yes. It recently relaunched and branded. Facebooks mission is to connect people and help them build community, FB local fits into this by using the power of the large social network to surface businesses and events and uses signals such as reviews to build trust and provide value. So its of the utmost importance that the reviews are authentic. Goal: I"See full answer

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