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How to answer product creation questions

How to answer product creation questions

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How to answer product creation questions

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- Product creation questions are common in the product management interview process, sometimes referred to as product vision or product design questions. These questions usually take the format of: "Tell me about how you'd design X for Y?" They can also take the form of an interviewer asking you what your favorite product is, why, and how you could improve it. These questions can seem intimidating at first, and actually, they're meant to be. By asking you to design something you have no experience in, the interviewer gets a sense of whether or not you can think through the problem in-depth, gain the proper context, think outside the box, and present solutions in a way that shows you're aware of the assumptions that you're making, all while under pressure. A while back, an interviewer asked me to design a better elevator system for the office building we were in. I obviously knew nothing about elevator systems, and very little about the building, so the first thing I did was ask what…

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