Product Design Interview Questions

Max V. - "What can be a camera ? point and shoot camera - to capture events Video camera - to record events Surveillance camera - cctv camera to monitor movements Elderly above 65 (male and female) with or without any medical condition Elderly can be tech-savvy but majority would be non-tech savvy. We can also further look to segment this customer base as elderly who are Living with their Children Living in foster care Living alone For the moment , i would restrict the geo"See full answer

Denny T. - "well i think they're parents should ask ride service"See full answer

Product V. - "Clarifying Questions What is definition of blind - people who cannot see Is this also inclusive of partially blind - No Does this cater people who are blind naturally or got blind due to some illness or accident - Only natural Why do you want to build it - what is the intended goal Improve the smartphone experience Do we expect the users any kind of phone experience when we talk about this device - Yes, basic phone experience with accessibility features "See full answer

Rishi P. - "Facebook's mission is to bring people closer. And sports is common language connecting people across the world. The joy of enjoying watching sports is with friends who also support the same team, cheer for them and trade facts about them. The product I would build is a live interactive sports app that a group of friends, though they are apart physically, can join into, chat and share happiness. The interactive sports app will stream live sports and allow users to create a community or group"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "My favourite fitness product is a social fitness app called Cult Fit. Users can book fitness classes on this app and workout with peers. There are multiple programs on the app, and you can shuffle between them as you wish and choose to attend classes at your preferred time. If users start to drop off after three months of attending the classes, I will do the following thing: I will try to go deep into the problem by identifying patterns: Check for app store reviews by users Check for feed"See full answer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rohit K. - "Clarifying scope : This is a feature on top of existing swiggy app to deliver prepared food for health-conscious people Clarify the term health conscious : Calory counters Macro trackers : Need balance of carb, protein, fat etc. Fresh Eaters :Need fresh ingredients Allergic due to some ingredient Ill people There can be various user personas along with respective pain points are: 1) Gym goers : No way to count the calories or track macro intakes in a swiggy order 2) Fresh eaters : Lack"See full answer

Kasturi K. - "What do you mean by smart lock. It is home locking system or digital locks Assuming it refers to home solutions that Google wants to get to build Customers Homeowners/ Rental Hotels Banks Vehicles Shops Each of the customer segments are good. Let’s investigate some of their characteristics Homeowners/ Rental – Huge Market as every urban house has a need. Hotels – Again the need is very high. Affordability is high. Low desirability to change existing set up. Banks – No"See full answer