Product Sense/Design Interviews: Common Mistakes

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Published 2022-02-22
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Ace your product management design/ product sense/ product strategy interview for Google, Facebook/Meta and other top tech/FAANG companies by avoiding the common mistakes people fall into that lead to weak responses. As an interviewer, I've noticed 90% of candidates interviewing for product manager roles make the same few mistakes. Check out the list, so you don't fall into the same traps and learn how we can answer more impressively

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All Comments (21)
  • @diannayau
    🤩Comment below: ✍which mistakes do you make when answering product design questions?
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  • This is hands down the BEST product management video/channel for your Meta interview. If you are interviewing at Meta, this channel is a MUST.
  • @housingjack
    Thank you Dianna, I never knew i was making the Pain Points vs needs problem.
    From now on I will point out the needs and then address pain points within those needs to be exhaustive.
  • Thank you Dianna! I think I made these mistakes at some point during the process. Really helpful content!
  • @vishal.shetty
    Wow! your thought process is clear. Glad I subscribed your channel.
  • Thank you @diannayau for your videos. These videos help me clear a lot of conceptual errors that are not called out elsewhere.
  • you are the best. I actually wait for your videos! I watched your videos and got an offer from a good startup. thank you so much!
  • @Bcerto
    Dianna, you should literally create a product management school and not just coach. This video was so helpful and so much more insightful than the vast majority of interview prep videos I’ve seen thus far. I just recently discovered the product management world/realised that I’ve been doing it in my current role the entire time. So now I’m going to take a General Assembly certification course in PM to reaffirm/perfect what I’ve already been doing. I will certainly be reaching out to you once my program is complete to get coaching! Thanks again for your help and sharing this crucial information 🙏❤️.
  • Awesome video Diana. I want to give this video 1000 thumbs up. Thank you for sharing.
  • @erictoulain7903
    I guess candidates ask about constraints like mobile VS web because of the examples given by Lewis C Lin on his CIRCLES framework (per Microsoft famous question: design a new airport from 0)
  • @krnboison
    Hey @diannayau - these videos are amazing! Thank you for doing this. One quick clarification: For the user segmentation question - how do you prioritize between selecting between the Businesses Providing Services vs Travelers (aka users in this case)? Do you perhaps say you want to focus on the traveler because the total addressable market is more (due to more users)?
  • @ashwinkumar8245
    Great video. Thanks, Dianna. It would be great if you can create video for product improvement. Once again, thanks for the amazing videos you have uploaded to your channel.
  • Really appreciate all of your great content! I have my interview this upcoming Monday and your videos have helped me build my confidence.
  • @Righteoso
    Dianna, your videos truly stand on top of all others I've seen. Thank you so much! I used your videos to prep for my Facebook PM interview (2nd attempt) and although I didn't make it again, I did much better than the first time. I really hope the 3rd time will be the charm :)))
    I have a question on time management vs going deep. I've struggled to balance the two. On one hand, in order to do a good job, for example, segmenting users (going deep and branching out), you need at least a few minutes just for that. Last time I did this (when asked to design a travel product for Facebook), I took some time to go into a few types of travelers but then I felt I was taking too much time with this so I moved on to picking a couple of segments to focus on. This might have been a mistake. So I'd like to ask how you guys, the interviewers, balance this? Do you wait to quickly validate if the candidate gets it and then ask them to fast forward to the next step or you wait for each step to be completed as detailed as possible? It does feel like a very well detailed product sense analysis would never fit into 45 minutes, so knowing how you guys go about it would help me immensely next time.
    Thank you so much!
  • Two questions:
    What's an appropriate way of recovering from identifying overlapping segment types or generally choosing "bad" segments?
    What is the appropriate way to acknowledge that a product (like Zodoc) might already exist, but you're not sure if it does?