Product Design Interview Questions

Devendra B. - "As a direct competitor to my favorite product, our mission is to enhance productivity for creative professionals. Targeting small design agencies, our solution offers a streamlined project management platform tailored to their specific needs. Launch feasibility relies on user feedback, ensuring impact and monetization through subscription-based pricing. Success metrics include user engagement and retention rates."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

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

Anonymous Mouse - "Clarify context: I'll assume that I'm a PM at Apple in this case 3 - 5 years: medium to long term thinking. So we're not just thinking about the next release. Any resource constraints? For example, any limitations on the number of engineers I have available, or can I assume that we might be able to deploy the entire iOS eng team to solve this if the problem and solutions are exciting enough? Assume no resource constraints for now, but will be thoughtful about feasibility. Any particular"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

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

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

Ramandeep S. - "If I were a Google PM in charge of the next Android keynote product announcement in 3 years, I would build the following: A more secure and privacy-focused Android platform. This is because security and privacy are becoming increasingly important to users. In the past few years, we have seen a number of high-profile data breaches, and users are becoming more aware of the risks of having their personal information online. A more secure and privacy-focused Android platform would help to add"See full answer

Atharv S. - "Assumptions / Questions: tech inclinations: AI induced Painpoints: helps me get up early, but no cues for my morning rituals. Goal: Comprehensive morning exp and not limited to just getting up but also aiding in the morining rituals. Get up early and fresh, set the tone for the day. User Segment/cat: Biz: parents Schools. Geo: India? Prod: students: >= 12, 13-18. School, Boarding school kids. Solution: Workflows like clock: Aesthically apealling and more engag"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

Abdurhman M. - "Start your stream Use the Post tab to: Choose where to post your live broadcast. Write a description. Select a camera, mic and screen (if screen sharing). Add a title for your live broadcast (optional). Select the primary language of the stream. ... Once everything is set, select Go Live."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