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Asked at Google • 2 years ago
Design a cooking apparatus for the blind.
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Design a health app within the Microsoft ecosystem.
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Asked at Google • 4 years ago
Design smart furniture for Google.
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"Clarifying QQ What do you mean by Smart - Lets say it means its connected Am I the google PM - yes Will we own the hardware part or this will be developed by any vendor/partner - Say vendor on requirements from google Any specific market - USA What is the overall goal - Enter the new market with driving better adoption and enhanced experience through the users Any specific piece of furniture - No you are free to assume Thanks for all the clarifying QQ Lets say for this exa"
Product V. - "Clarifying QQ What do you mean by Smart - Lets say it means its connected Am I the google PM - yes Will we own the hardware part or this will be developed by any vendor/partner - Say vendor on requirements from google Any specific market - USA What is the overall goal - Enter the new market with driving better adoption and enhanced experience through the users Any specific piece of furniture - No you are free to assume Thanks for all the clarifying QQ Lets say for this exa"See full answer
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Asked at Meta • 5 years ago
Design a financial planning product on Facebook.
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
You're the PM for Meta's Social Good team. Design a new product to encourage more volunteering.
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"Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was: Meta Mission Audiences Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs) Brainstorm solutions Prioritize solutions MVP - Measure of success Risks and tradeoffs The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"
Brody C. - "Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was: Meta Mission Audiences Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs) Brainstorm solutions Prioritize solutions MVP - Measure of success Risks and tradeoffs The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"See full answer
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
Design a refrigerator for Meta.
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Asked at Shopify • 4 years ago
Design better support for friendly returns processes to enhance merchant success.
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Asked at Monday • 2 years ago
Design an employee onboarding product for SaaS companies.
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Asked at Google • 4 years ago
Design a Google product for individuals living in retirement homes.
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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Improve Google Maps for grandparents.
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Asked at Airbnb • 5 years ago
Design a payment collection experience that maintains trust in the Airbnb community.
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"Clarification Question: First I would like to clarify my understanding of AirBnB. AirBnB is an online marketplace that lets people rent out their properties or spare rooms to guests. Airbnb takes 3% commission from hosts and around 6 to 12% from guests. Now, I believe payment collection experience is related to the host so they can visualize everything around their payments. Reason for designing this experience - to provide a better collection experience for hosts Marke"
D S. - "Clarification Question: First I would like to clarify my understanding of AirBnB. AirBnB is an online marketplace that lets people rent out their properties or spare rooms to guests. Airbnb takes 3% commission from hosts and around 6 to 12% from guests. Now, I believe payment collection experience is related to the host so they can visualize everything around their payments. Reason for designing this experience - to provide a better collection experience for hosts Marke"See full answer
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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
What are the top three pain points of commuting train passengers?
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"I am assuming this is for Trains from one city to another and not the local trains. Top pain points are - Information on the how much time is left to reach destination Cleanliness and safety Food and water supply"
Navya D. - "I am assuming this is for Trains from one city to another and not the local trains. Top pain points are - Information on the how much time is left to reach destination Cleanliness and safety Food and water supply"See full answer
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
You are in charge of building a national park system in a newly formed country; how would you measure success?
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"Solution picked: a half software half hardware remote control"
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
Should we build a product for borrowing and lending money on Facebook?
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"Clarifying questions Scope this down to borrowing and lending within US Scope this down to just money and not other assets (crypto, gold etc.) Scope this down to Facebook/Instagram app and not website etc. Is this peer to peer lending? Or lending from financial institutions etc.? (Scope to peer to peer lending as that connects more with the mission). Lending for small business needs, etc. are scoped out for simplicity **Mission Statement and how it is connected to this product ide"
Bhargava Y. - "Clarifying questions Scope this down to borrowing and lending within US Scope this down to just money and not other assets (crypto, gold etc.) Scope this down to Facebook/Instagram app and not website etc. Is this peer to peer lending? Or lending from financial institutions etc.? (Scope to peer to peer lending as that connects more with the mission). Lending for small business needs, etc. are scoped out for simplicity **Mission Statement and how it is connected to this product ide"See full answer
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Asked at Coinbase • 4 years ago
If you were PM for Twitter Spaces, how would you improve it?
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Asked at Meta • 5 years ago
Design a spreadsheet for mobile phones.
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"As I understand it, you’d like me to design a mobile native application (for iOS or Android) that helps people manipulate data similar to that of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. You can add and import data, edit it, run calculations, regressions, and generate charts and graphs. If it’s ok with you, I’d like to confine the design to iOS, and based on my knowledge of how a product manager uses a spreadsheet. I’d like to approach this problem by first identifying the goal of the app. Since we’r"
David I. - "As I understand it, you’d like me to design a mobile native application (for iOS or Android) that helps people manipulate data similar to that of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. You can add and import data, edit it, run calculations, regressions, and generate charts and graphs. If it’s ok with you, I’d like to confine the design to iOS, and based on my knowledge of how a product manager uses a spreadsheet. I’d like to approach this problem by first identifying the goal of the app. Since we’r"See full answer
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Asked at Meta • 4 years ago
Design a product or feature for new or expecting parents on Facebook.
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Asked at Asana • 4 years ago
Design Uber for laundry.
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"This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success: Ask clarifying questions Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points State the goal and use cases List current solutions Improvements / net new solutions Evaluate and select solutions Measure Success Summarize Ask clarifying questions It's important to get clarity on anything unclear. Asking questions also helps us limit scope early on s"
Exponent - "This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success: Ask clarifying questions Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points State the goal and use cases List current solutions Improvements / net new solutions Evaluate and select solutions Measure Success Summarize Ask clarifying questions It's important to get clarity on anything unclear. Asking questions also helps us limit scope early on s"See full answer
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Asked at Google • 5 years ago
Redesign Google's on-campus bike system.
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"Clarifying questions: Location: Mountian view campus. [Google has campuses across the world and for the interview purpose design the product for Mountian view campus] Assumption : Scope of the design is on-campus travel purpose between buildings. Product: Digital product Target Customer segments Meetings: Googlers who takes bikes to commute to a different build for meetings. a. Goal: On-Time for meetings Lunch or breakfast: Lunch spot co-ordinat"
S K. - "Clarifying questions: Location: Mountian view campus. [Google has campuses across the world and for the interview purpose design the product for Mountian view campus] Assumption : Scope of the design is on-campus travel purpose between buildings. Product: Digital product Target Customer segments Meetings: Googlers who takes bikes to commute to a different build for meetings. a. Goal: On-Time for meetings Lunch or breakfast: Lunch spot co-ordinat"See full answer
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How would you improve the search function on Walmart.com?
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"I would improve the Walmart search function by being more specific on what I’m searching like for example if I’m searching for potato chips I would just type Lays Potato Chips and then click the search button and It will appear a lot of options instead of all other brands."
Amparo L. - "I would improve the Walmart search function by being more specific on what I’m searching like for example if I’m searching for potato chips I would just type Lays Potato Chips and then click the search button and It will appear a lot of options instead of all other brands."See full answer
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