Product design mock interview: help local business (w/ ex-Google PM)

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🎥 This PM mock case interview features Allen Yang, ex-Googler and Bubble PM, as the candidate answering a FAANG focused product design/sense question about helping local businesses survive COVID-19. Kenton Kivestu, our ex-Googler Founder, is the interviewer.
If you're preparing for Facebook, Microsoft, or Apple product management interviews, this video is a must watch. And for anyone preparing for other PM roles: product sense questions about designing different products for a variety of situations are a super common topic; this interview will give you insight into what these questions are like and what a good response looks like.
🎬 Video Sections:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Interview prompt
01:28 Clarifying questions
03:30 Goals and outline
05:50 Breakdown of users
10:00 Pain points and competitors
12:00 MVP
23:55 Future improvements
28:42 Metrics
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@MrJayspeaks 2 жыл бұрын

Ask questions. Acknowledge answers are 'cool'. Ask more questions. Throw some stuff on the wall. Sign the offer letter. Buy the Porsche. Good stuff and very helpful for interview prep. Thanks for the upload!

@apoorvakhajjidoni812 3 жыл бұрын

This helps a lot! A good amount of takeaways on how one should structure their response! Thank you for this!!

@triumv43 3 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate these videos! Would love to see more consulting mock case interview videos as well! Thank you for providing this free content to us, you are really making a positive impact on our lives and helping us achieve our full potential.

@rocketblocks 3 жыл бұрын

thanks Derick, more consulting goodness coming in the future too :)

@juniask 3 жыл бұрын

I have a case study interview next week and this video will help me a lot. Thanks for sharing

@obinnaubah9045 3 жыл бұрын

Damn! I think this is the best one yet. Allan is as smart as he is soft spoken

@rocketblocks 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha... Allan is calm but focused! Great answer :)

@ajslife3961 3 жыл бұрын

This was simply awesome and informative! Helped me a lot in my case study interviews with Product owners and company stakeholders.

@EmadElSammad 3 жыл бұрын

This one is great. Please we need more of mocking interviews, as there aren’t any on KZfaq on product design

@rocketblocks 3 жыл бұрын

thanks Emad!

@aimankhan3650 3 жыл бұрын

@@rocketblocks I am under graduate Biomedical Engineer and wanted to know more about product design .I had been doing the prosthetic design of limb course on Fusion 360 interface

@oscargomezfigueroa3997 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for sharing this kind of videos, it's really helpful

@xiaohanma2584 2 жыл бұрын

in the metrics section 33:20, i think the very reason that Allen chose to prioritize end user engagement vs Kenton thought that percentage of businesses putting in information is the most important, is that from the very beginning Allen has changed the challenge from "helping small businesses" to "user engagement increase." This kind of makes sense to me in terms of what I think a PM does-people all talk about being user-centric but PMs and designers first need to keep their company's product alive right? So did he do the right thing or could this turn into a big issue of steering away from the original challenge? This video is absolutely great and I have learned a lot. thank you for making it.

@ashwinkumar675 2 жыл бұрын

Very well rounded video. Thank you! Is it true that some interviewers (particularly google) consider using frameworks like the one outlined in the beginning of this video as "robotic" ? Or is it ok to do it casually like you did in this video?

@ZenzeraBellaAnna 2 жыл бұрын

Your channel is a Godsend 😭❤️🙏🏻

@namsookim203 3 жыл бұрын

Awww! this is a super cool and solid interview video that I've ever watched. have a quick question on Metrics. is it the task that especially PM needs to solve for the product design? I'm a product designer, so I'm wondering about whether I should replace the metrics with the *wireframing* or not. btw, this is really helpful content!! much appreciated!!

@AbhijeetWankhade 3 жыл бұрын

As a product designer you will have to think about metrics as well. The only difference between this interview and a product designer interview would be how all this information translates into a screen or series of screens.

@g.1100 3 жыл бұрын

many product interviews I have found online don't cover an MVP. would you advise in favor of this practice? My impression is that there is an expectation for most of the discussion to remain in the problem space.

@Taskade 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing mock interview. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too. :)

@MrJayspeaks 2 жыл бұрын

Good point

@sergioreyes1970 2 жыл бұрын

I really like his structure and his answers, though I think he got off easy at the beginning by choosing Google Maps--a product he is very familiar with as an ex-Googler. If I were the interviewer, I would've pushed him to explore the Problem space--thinking about the kinds of pains businesses experience as a result of COVID and then choosing one to try to solve for. Instead, he tailored the solution to a Product he is very familiar with, and he shone. I guess another way of saying this is, why should Google invest in this project via-a-vis other compelling solutions to problems out there? He didn't answer that question because he latched onto Google Maps as a vehicle to his solution from the get go. As a interviewee, I might be tempted to do the same thing because I can speak intelligently about a product I know. I'd be curious to know if the interviewer would consider this to be a drawback to his approach.

@xiaohanma2584 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this might be partly an intentional trick of this challenge. "A product/feature that can help small businesses during covid" is as broad as a challenge can get and can be literally implemented on any product. It gives interviewees the freedom to choose their own level. He could either take a risk and design a whole new product from the ground up, or stick with what he know. And the interviewer knows that. I think I read a note when Allen started to get into specific features he had in mind and it was considered "not very exciting." So he did not shine all the way, but I think he still showed his skills in the most important thing which is the thought process.

@isaacblane-zimberg4298 2 жыл бұрын

Were all of Allen's product ideas generated on the spot, or was there any preparation time? Is there any concern that asking someone to come up with product ideas on the spot leads to half baked ideas? Or is the idea just to see how good and quick a person can think, with relatively little data available at their fingertips?

@shaileshrana7165 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty good interview.

@doomecology9943 3 жыл бұрын

super informative! for these product design questions, how much time usually elapses for the interviewee to jot down their thoughts?

@rocketblocks 3 жыл бұрын

Good question: anywhere between 30 - 90 seconds is usually fine to gather thoughts and think about an approach

@doomecology9943 3 жыл бұрын

@@rocketblocks thank you! I'm really enjoying the content :)

@jayaram.ramanarayanan 2 жыл бұрын

The starting was pretty boring and slow, but by middle you got to the main point of discussion. MVP could have been presented better - about how you would make it effective using Google Maps.

@wueijun 2 жыл бұрын

As much as it may not be as interesting, it is very necessary for Allen to ask the questions and define the requirements for him to really proceed into the actual brainstorming. Jumping into it right away would mean not understanding or defining the problem enough, because everything ties back to the goals and users

@El_Maestro10x 8 ай бұрын

Got to look at the camera more or you can come across as unprofessional

@abbiepdy979 Жыл бұрын

Very boring video, I letrally slept off. They have clearly chosen a wrong example. Answer to "What is the feature" should come early in the process andnot going through the whole story.The product interviews should delve into the concept of designing a feature. Instead, the interview gets too deep into the mechanics (probably due to his background and experience with Google Map). The speaking speed is also too fast. One bad mock from RocketBlocks.

@koma7252 2 ай бұрын

it's a scam field full of scammers, so of course the discussion will sound like two hucksters plotting and scheming....and I do have to say, the UX lingo is so cringe, persona, pain point, friction, just lol how sad it is, at least there are 100000000000 layoffs from this bogus industry happening right now and I hope they run this "profession" to the ground with outsourcing and diversity hires. The dummass on the left side of the screen is epitome of scammer. PAIN POINT, muh paint point. Pathetic.