Get FASTER at Product Design/Sense Interview Questions
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Get FASTER at answering product design/sense questions- this video teaches you how to manage your time in each section of the product design/sense question. Most people find themselves running out of time in product design questions. Here’s a guide on how much time to use on motivation, user segmentation, painpoints and solutions. These questions sound like “What product would you build for x” and often asked for product manager and product designer interviews at top tech companies like Google and Facebook etc.
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Very insightful video. For me segmentation of users takes the most time. There are so many possibilities. For example, build a ridesharing app for elderly. There are different types (rural vs. urban; physically able vs. challenged) and some videos recommend coming up with 3 and then pick 1.
Pain points take me the longest. I usually end up with 4-6 steps in the user journey and 2-4 pain points each. I also share my doc with the interviewer and write everything down, then I have to go through the user journey and explain everything, and rant a bit. It takes me less than 10 minutes to go through this section, but boy does it feel longer than every other one. I am relieved to hear that this is your recommendation (to spend the longest time in this section).
It's usually not hard to come up with meaningful pain points after a lot of practice, but there are just so many and I should really try not to be 100% exhaustive here like you recommended.
Yesss the painpoints section will naturally take the longest which isn’t a bad thing! I’d recommend 3-5 steps and 2 painpoints each so a total of 6-10. Otherwise it’ll be a bit too much… in a real work setting you’ll want to be exhaustive but for the interview you just want to give them sufficient signal that you can do it
Thank you for another great video. Your channel by far has the best value for the preparation for such interviews.
and I LOVE the point about being too exhaustive - this is exactly the problem I have :)
Haha I’m so glad to hear it resonated! Yesss you and most people so don’t worry, once you’re aware, that’s where change can begin
@@diannayaui Dianna - I just wanted to thank you for all your hard work in creating these videos! They’re a gold mine for PM stuff. You breakdown and explain things brilliantly. So keep going and thank you for sharing all your knowledge - I’ve learned so much.
Yes, thank you Dianna. Super helpful and concise!
thank you! being in industry for a while its hard to get back into interview mode, this definitely helps!
I hear you! I have a lot of clients who have decades of experience but interviewing isn’t always easier :)
I have a hard time segmenting the user base quickly. There are so many options of how to segment - which one is the best one and which one will I be able to identify great pain points for? I know I need to get faster at this
Other challenging portion is at the very top. Let's say it's Travel product. I feel like asking "do we want to focus on planning travel, or during travel or after travel?" but then I fear I will narorw myself down too much for me and my skill to creatively and deeply think through a narrow space. What shall one do? Narrow funnel from beginning or keep it open ?
Pain point is the most challenging for me. Somteimes its solution but mostly it's really pain points.
Thank you Dianna, a question about user segment, how do i justify the "1 side" i choose to breakdown into sub user segment?
2 Question for pain points: Where I have trouble with is 1) Is the pain point too narrow? That makes me feel like "crap! It's so narrow I will only have 1 solution" 2)Sometimes I come up with pain point that starts sounding like solution. What shall be your advice ?
Extremely insightful video. Thank you Diana!
Great content! In your opinion, what would be a good (not shallow) explanation for how building a product for the grocery store experience aligns with Facebook's mission?
it doesn't align super well with Fb's mission but if I really needed to it'd be something like "Grocery stores probably make up the majority of physical retail businesses and given FB's interest in helping promote commerce, grocery could be one of the most impactful type of businesses to help"
I am seeing a recent trend where people are trying to ask you a product sense question on top of either another product sense or 2 other unrelated (not follow ups) questions. This means your product sense is limited to 15-20 minutes. Now, I am not sure why that is or if this is here to stay, but I've either encountered or have heard people encountered this at a few companies. Google does this sometimes, as an example. Even if not, some companies like to ask "what is your favorite product" or "tell me a product you don't like". in which case you need to spend at least 5 minutes to give some reasoning up front. Some other companies, like Coinbase, only gives you 30 minutes to do a case.
TL;DR: there may be other cases:
1) 25m to do one (favorite products - 5m to explain why you like it + 25m on the product sense itself)
2) 15m to do one (two product sense prompts in one round, or a product sense with 1-2 other unrelated, not follow up questions)
3) 15m to do one (30m round)
Any advice there?
Yah I heard coinbase and google both do 2 questions sometimes. For the google ones like “design a phone for the blind” you can probably get away with not covering user segments so that’ll cut down 5 or so mins. Shorten painpoints to 3-4 vs. 6ish. And cover the “why this matters” in like 1-2 mins. Doable, but not ideal.
@@diannayau DoorDash's phone screen asks you a product prioritization question and a product sense in 45m. It was a whirlwind for me. I basically had to double time everything. They help you out by telling you exactly which segment to focus on for product sense, but it's like going from running at a brisk pace to suddenly needing to run for your life with a monster chasing after you. I am pretty sure I gave them some subpar answers as a result of the haste, but I still got to onsite. But it's a nightmare situation.
interviewing with meta tomorrow!!🤞
I noticed in your videos that you don't include metrics in the product sense question. Is it safe to say I don't need to include metrics if I'm interviewing for Meta? I'm seeing mixed feedback from Meta PMs. For example, the Art & Science videos are also by a Meta PM and he includes success metrics in the product sense question. Any insight would be much appreciated if you could share if metrics should be included in product sense questions for Meta. Thanks so much! Your videos have been super helpful with my interview prep.
No metrics needed for product sense, not something that’s tested for in that interview!
@@diannayau Great, thank you!