Product Design Interview Questions

Exponent - "Let's first identify the type of problem we're solving. This is an Improve a product question. Let's go over the Improve a Product formula once more: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Okay great. Now that we have the formula, it's time to execute on it! Ask clarifying questions Before we start iden"See full answer

Vijendar K. - "I'd like to clarify the question here for better understanding. Are we targeting any location? Assuming WW Do we have any demographics of the users? Assuming overall users Did we see any drop recently in TV watching users metrics for which we want to improve the watch time on TVs? No, in general we want to improve this area. Are we looking to improve the overall Netflix watch time on TV, not to acquire new users? Correct. As Netflix is offering content of so many genres of con"See full answer

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

Sukriti C. - "Why is this important? Human capital is the core competitive advantage for technology companies, especially Google. Making the best hire for a given position vs not at scale can mean hours of lost productivity with significant monetary implications. The corollary to a false negative is also a false positive. Assuming that the goal is to hire the best candidate for a given job, the fact that the right person was not hired means the less than the right person for the job was. Impact : Delta"See full answer

Maria T. - "Clarifying questions: Will it be a separate app of Google maps or integrated into an existing one? Let's say it will be integrated into an existing app. Which disabilities users have? Any of your choice. For which audience are we building this product? Any exact geo, age, gender? Any of your choice. How many resources we have? Any timeline for the product to be launched? Need to launch a product in a year and any resources required. Google's mission is to organize the world's"See full answer

Adrian V. - "What about sharding by Real Estate companies that are listing the homes? Because the homes can span zip codes. Then further shard by zip codes?"See full answer

Anonymous Jellyfish - "Thank you for the question! Normally, I would want to ask some clarifying questions to try to better understand the scope of the problem. Below are some of those questions & assumptions I am going to make because I need to submit an answer without getting a response. Question 1: What is Facebook’s north star metric for this exercise? Growth? Engagement? I’m also keeping in mind that because we are talking about building a birthday feature in the earlier stages of Facebook, their north s"See full answer

Rohan S. - "Honestly, I would’ve loved something like this when I was younger. I couldn’t wait till the day I was 18 so I could start investing and would read personal finance books on random topics. Clarification Questions Kids is a very broad term, is there a specific age range you had in mind or would you want me to determine that myself? > I will assume that this will start off as an application, and then later can be integrated on a"See full answer

Greg W. - "Clarifying Questions: Is this for business travel, personal travel, or both? Are there any particular objectives that we want to focus on? Think about why Facebook would want to do this is it because they are thinking about building an external-facing travel product, and want to test it on Facebook employees first? Facebook employees work hard, so they want to make sure that their employees are taking the vacations they need to optimize performance List user types employees trav"See full answer

Glados - "First, why are we building the system? What are the requirements we must meet - Do customers care about data being read/written from a single set of tables or multiple tables, do they care about cost allocation, do they need backups/storage to happen slow or fast, do they foresee a lot of data movement from one table to another? Based on this, there are a few options using some common design choices. Shared disk, or Shared nothing. Both have pros and cons. Based on latency, performance, and cos"See full answer

Adarsh S. - "Hey, Thanks for the question - it’s an interesting real-life existing problem wherein a few of my friends and colleagues who have tried to work and travel have faced these issues at their respective airBnBs. Cool so this is the rough backbone structure that we can follow and ofcourse we can add meat later on to it and pivot if required. So here it goes: First would like to lay out the broader mission of Airbnb + WHY this is needed as to why we are doing this and then some clarific"See full answer

M N. - "Lyft mission. What do we mean by engagement here? We want higher rides , not just time spent on app. What does social mean? When we create interactions between riders. Lyft line is social. Ideas: Idea: Can we maintain interactions between riders by letting them ride with same people again? Benefit: Increases repeat rides. Idea: Giving riders an option to request a driver they rode with. Benefits: Increases social interaction between riders and drivers. Increases retention and # rides as"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Assumptions: This is an entirely new app and not part of FB Clarification questions: Q: What type of doctors are they looking for? It seems like an app would be for a more generalist doctor to establish relationship and not some type of emergency situation A: Yes Q: When we say looking for doctors whats the scope of this? Should we include making the actual appointment, does this happen on platform? A: Yes, initial appointment Ok thanks based on that I think we have enough to get started. "See full answer

Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions Is this for specific type of user or open? Do we have any past research that has been done? Do we have an idea of company and user goals? Do we have metrics of success? Are there any existing constraints? Why  |  5 min Why is this product or feature important? How does this product benefit customers? What business opportunities does it create? What is our hypothesis? What are our company goals? Who  |  3 min Who are the different types"See full answer