Product Design Interview Questions

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Asked at Meta • 3 years ago
What is your favorite Facebook product and why?
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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
What is your favorite non-digital product and why? As the product manager, what would you release next year?
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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
How would you improve the Pinterest experience?
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"My use of Pinterest is somewhat limited. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to save and share ideas in a visual manner. So whether you are interested in fashion, health, lifestyle, decor, sports, you can learn about those in a visual manner. Am I correct? Of course, Pinterest provides recommendations for people to follow, makes it easy to save images as pins, categorize into various topics. The source of revenue is advertisements. That’s my understanding. Is there anything else I"
Bg - "My use of Pinterest is somewhat limited. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to save and share ideas in a visual manner. So whether you are interested in fashion, health, lifestyle, decor, sports, you can learn about those in a visual manner. Am I correct? Of course, Pinterest provides recommendations for people to follow, makes it easy to save images as pins, categorize into various topics. The source of revenue is advertisements. That’s my understanding. Is there anything else I"See full answer
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Asked at Atlassian, Meta • 5 months ago
As a product manager for Meta, design a product for volunteers.
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
Product Sense - Build a product for sports.
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Asked at Netflix • 4 years ago
Design a referral system for Netflix to drive its user growth.
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"Context Referral system as in how users can refer others to join Netflix? Yes. User growth meaning subscriptions to the platform? Or started a free trial? I will let you decide that. Company/Product Netflix makes it easy to watch movies, TV shows, and play games from your home TV and mobile devices. Goal: Create a referral system that - grows the volume of subscribed users to Netflix. Metric: Total subscriptions + Total subscriptions from referrals. Total referrals made **User"
Anonpm C. - "Context Referral system as in how users can refer others to join Netflix? Yes. User growth meaning subscriptions to the platform? Or started a free trial? I will let you decide that. Company/Product Netflix makes it easy to watch movies, TV shows, and play games from your home TV and mobile devices. Goal: Create a referral system that - grows the volume of subscribed users to Netflix. Metric: Total subscriptions + Total subscriptions from referrals. Total referrals made **User"See full answer
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Asked at Amazon • 3 years ago
How do you consider your impact on the world as a product designer?
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"In my time as a product designer, I’ve seen a transition of growth from something that is visually appealing to what is actually useful / functional / scalable. I think as designers, we are afraid to let things go such as the visual fidelity of design and how something could be useful but not necessarily have the flash of a more consumer based product. I think when we learn to let that go, we can see the scale of our impact and that we aren’t just people who make something look good/pretty but t"
Ben G. - "In my time as a product designer, I’ve seen a transition of growth from something that is visually appealing to what is actually useful / functional / scalable. I think as designers, we are afraid to let things go such as the visual fidelity of design and how something could be useful but not necessarily have the flash of a more consumer based product. I think when we learn to let that go, we can see the scale of our impact and that we aren’t just people who make something look good/pretty but t"See full answer
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Asked at Capital One • 3 years ago
Reinvent a pillow with 10 new features.
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Asked at Meta • 2 years ago
Design a new product that Apple could announce in 5-6 years. What features and innovations would it include, and how would it enhance the current Apple ecosystem?
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Asked at Google • 4 years ago
Design a mobile app to celebrate birthdays.
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"clarifying questions: what is the business goal- we can consider monetization and user adoption. I will choose monetization any resource constraint to be aware of? which geographic location are we looking to pilot this product? we should consider the USA for now framework user segmentation pain points potential solutions success metrics implementation summary users celebrants well-wishers brands in prioritizing user segments, I will consider the user segment that"
Anonymous Finch - "clarifying questions: what is the business goal- we can consider monetization and user adoption. I will choose monetization any resource constraint to be aware of? which geographic location are we looking to pilot this product? we should consider the USA for now framework user segmentation pain points potential solutions success metrics implementation summary users celebrants well-wishers brands in prioritizing user segments, I will consider the user segment that"See full answer
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Redesign the city park experience.
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Aditya G. - "We would like the interviewer to call out bad interviews too. I understand that these guest interviewees are spending their time for Exponent and are probably compensated. Exponent's customers are paying members and they need to know that bad answers are called out as bad answers and why. Telling everyone they are awesome at the end of the PM interview doesn't send the right message to paying subscribers who are spending valuable time training for interviews."See full answer
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Asked at Booking.com • 2 years ago
Design a Smart Lock for Google.
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"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"
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
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Asked at Google • 2 years ago
If your grocery store’s foot traffic suddenly increased to 10 times its normal capacity, how would you redesign the store layout and operations?
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"CQs Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general Any time of the day , store should be able to handle To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products Day to day grocery Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ? We suddenly become local's favorite We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"
Abhi S. - "CQs Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general Any time of the day , store should be able to handle To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products Day to day grocery Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ? We suddenly become local's favorite We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"See full answer
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Asked at Twitter • 5 years ago
How would you improve Twitter?
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Asked at Google • 2 years ago
Design an experimentation platform for Google.
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"Since Experimentation is a Broad Term I would like to ask a couple of Clarifying questions What kind of Experimentation User Behavior with newly introduced Beta features AI/Image learning Based Experimentation to test out trial features Something else API based experimentation for user/Third-party experiments,with APIs for new features exposed(this has a lot of potential where devs of apps etc can integrate new experimentation features in their apps with minima"
Manas M. - "Since Experimentation is a Broad Term I would like to ask a couple of Clarifying questions What kind of Experimentation User Behavior with newly introduced Beta features AI/Image learning Based Experimentation to test out trial features Something else API based experimentation for user/Third-party experiments,with APIs for new features exposed(this has a lot of potential where devs of apps etc can integrate new experimentation features in their apps with minima"See full answer
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Asked at Google, Google Cloud (GCP) • 2 years ago
How would you use a $100M investment from a venture capital firm to build an OLTP database product, making it cost-neutral and generating growth within 5 years?
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Asked at LinkedIn • 3 years ago
LinkedIn Stories is a failed product. What would you have done differently?
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Asked at American Express • a year ago
Design an automated reimbursement system.
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"Automated Reimbursement System 1. Clarifying Questions Scope: Will the system be applicable to all employees or only specific grades/levels? Ownership: Are we building this product internally for our own use, or is it intended for external/outsourced usage? MVP Requirements: Besides automation, what additional features or problem statements should the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) address? 2. User Segmentation Commute Expenses: e.g., m"
Kiran R. - "Automated Reimbursement System 1. Clarifying Questions Scope: Will the system be applicable to all employees or only specific grades/levels? Ownership: Are we building this product internally for our own use, or is it intended for external/outsourced usage? MVP Requirements: Besides automation, what additional features or problem statements should the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) address? 2. User Segmentation Commute Expenses: e.g., m"See full answer
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Asked at Walmart Labs • 5 years ago
You are opening a new Walmart store. How many cash registers do you need?
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"clarifying questions: Particular location? Small town? Big town? Self- checkout vs. associate checkout? Weekly operating hours? Super-center vs small format? Competitive landscape? Store sales? Are we talking division 1 or adding health and wellness? Does the store have a vision center? Hair… nails … bank etc. Let’s say we agree that this is a super center in a suburb that wants to focus on converting to full self checkout. I’d have to look further into exact times with my data science team t"
Michael P. - "clarifying questions: Particular location? Small town? Big town? Self- checkout vs. associate checkout? Weekly operating hours? Super-center vs small format? Competitive landscape? Store sales? Are we talking division 1 or adding health and wellness? Does the store have a vision center? Hair… nails … bank etc. Let’s say we agree that this is a super center in a suburb that wants to focus on converting to full self checkout. I’d have to look further into exact times with my data science team t"See full answer
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Asked at Booking.com, Coinbase • 6 months ago
How would you optimize booking.com to improve conversion rates?
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"Optimizing Booking.com to improve conversion rates involves a strategic and holistic approach that considers various aspects of the user experience, website functionality, and marketing. Here are several strategies that could be employed: \\User-Centric Design:\\ \\Mobile Optimization:\\ Ensure the website is fully optimized for mobile devices, given the increasing number of users booking on smartphones. \\Intuitive Navigation:\\ Streamline the booking process with a cl"
Rishi P. - "Optimizing Booking.com to improve conversion rates involves a strategic and holistic approach that considers various aspects of the user experience, website functionality, and marketing. Here are several strategies that could be employed: \\User-Centric Design:\\ \\Mobile Optimization:\\ Ensure the website is fully optimized for mobile devices, given the increasing number of users booking on smartphones. \\Intuitive Navigation:\\ Streamline the booking process with a cl"See full answer
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