Product Design Interview Questions

Aniket B. - "Firstly lets note down the ways of monetization - Promotional Ads Paid Filters and AR effects Influencer promotional fee Instagram Additional Tools for Creators - subscription basis (analytics and management) > many influencers also run their own promotional campaigns to gain more and more followers on their handles - Instagram can use this opportunity (e-commerce sites ranking algorithm of different items/sellers) > promotional ads can affect slightly on user engagement but accord"See full answer

Sg S. - "Let’s talk about goals first Goals are: Yelp:
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I assumed that main goal is the revenue from advertising. It PPC advertising so we want more people to click on it.
2 Keep high user engagement level advertisers: want to keep the CR and CPS. Let’s discuss how can we define the appropriate number of ads: We can set up AB testing with different number of ads. We want to see if there is significant revenue increase when we show 1,3,5 ads.
We also want to check the tradeoffs and be sure tha"See full answer

Sarabjeet S. - "Clarification: What type of business partners are these, some examples? Why isn't a phone/Google meet sufficient for communication? Any specific countries - abroad? With unlimited resources: Mission - To drive increases in Google's business through partnerships Goal of this project - Enable Sundar to communicate quickly and effectively with partners Product vision - Multi-language simulcast of Sundar's message tailored for individual partners Details: Allow Sundar to relay the same message t"See full answer

Jiale L. - "I’d open by confirming we’re designing object storage for arbitrary binary objects—images, backups, data lake files—not block volumes for VMs unless you redirect me. Actors: developers and services inside Amazon’s ecosystem, multi-tenant, millions of buckets, trillions of objects. MVP API: create bucket, PUT object, GET object, DELETE, list objects with prefix, HEAD for metadata. I’d ask about versioning, encryption at rest default, and whether"See full answer

SG - "Clarification - Are we referring to HW or SW/experience or overall product? Choose any. Choosing overall product. Are we targeting a particular use case - such as health/commerce/or am I free to choose one? Choose on your own. Any other constraints that I should be aware or? Lastly, does it have to meet both AR and VR, or can we prioritize one at this time? And if so, any concerns with prioritizing one? I am choosing to prioritize AR this point .. and I'll walk you thoroug"See full answer

Yulia D. - "What age of kid we are speaking about? Lets assume 5-10 years what messenger app are we talking about? you can choose Who is creating the feature? you can choose Finally, do we have any constraints? no, please, just imagine ok. so I think company's goal should be giving the tools for building communities among the youngest ones. First I want to issue what is Kids messenger app. I have kid of 5 years old and among my friends there are only few with gudgets that can provide messenger f"See full answer

Patrick M. - "First thing I would like to consider is what is the potential opportunity to building an apps marketplace. Questions I would ask are: What’s the current user base of Microsoft Office Suite? What is that in revenue? Is it growing or declining? Where are users going to if they’re leaving? What are the most popular and least popular apps used in the Office suite? What are other apps that Microsoft Officer users use outside of the suite? Assuming that Microsoft Office has a massive us"See full answer

Amin S. - "We can implement Mall psychology, use the monkey effect, FOMO, top-rated stuff from the same restaurants, bundle offers like couple or group offers, and prompt popups for free delivery if you complete X$ amount by adding X item. We can lure customers by giving free subscriptions to Spotify, Netflix, etc. by collaborating with these giants. This is a long-story-short overview of how we can increase the average basket size. Tracking telemetry and refining can make a difference obviously..."See full answer

Patrick K. - "Full travel packages. Flight + hotel + experiences. They have all the data in the world to scrape to see some of the top places to visit in each city or country. Coupled with the ability to find the cheapest flights to make these trips affordable."See full answer

Samarth S. - "Before we jump into discussion , few Qs which come to my mind in order to narrow the scope are: What kind of security system we are thinking . What do we want to achieve? Is there any biz goal in mind. What security related pain points are we trying to solve. What is the kind of hotel - is it a vacation rental , standalone hotel, highway motel, big chain resorts? What are the current systems being used. I think most of hotels have closed circuit cameras , fire alarms installed in"See full answer

Abhinav C. - "Clarifying Questions Is it for a specific museum or any museum? To start with for a specific museum , we can expand to more museums Which region? Lets say a museum in UK, US or Europe any specific problem you want to solve? nothing specific What is the objective or goal of the app? You can choose Goal : To enhance the experience of visiting the museum and increase footfall in the long run through word of mouth / referrals Users : Museum Visitors Painpoints / Use Cases :- 1) For l"See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Spotify is a music application that allows users to listen to music, create their own playlists, share songs, recommend songs based on their listening patterns etc. Clarifying questions: Goal - Improve engagement and provide blind people with a platform to listen to music as they miss out on a lot of aspects of life. The main idea is to promote more inclusivity Same app or different - Same app Time or resource constraints: No Spotify has music creators and music listeners who are we"See full answer

Varun J. - "Assumptions: In-app feature Focused only on Facebook app and not messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram Focused on community building and groups, not marketplace Facebook's mission is to bring people closer together and give people the power to build communities. Fans of Olympic games straddle across regions and across demographics such as age and gender. I'd assume the product for Olympics should be targeted to all demographics. However, given not everyone follows, or is interested in build"See full answer

Anusree N. - "Design a product for cyclists. Clarifying Cyclist as in? People who cycle right? Who are we? Startup Are we designing a MVP/Standalone application or integrating the solution with an already existing one? Goal? Seems like acquisition, anything else or any broader goal that might be in your mind? Customer segments? You define. Is it a hardware or a software product? Geography? India Customer segment Regular cyclist: Who uses cycle for their daily commute. (As acquisition is our main g"See full answer