Cheat Sheet for Product Improvement Interview Questions
Product Improvement questions evaluate your ability to think in a structured manner, identify product pain points, and develop new features that improve the product.
1. Describe the product | Demonstrate that you understand the product and how it works. |
2. Clarify the scope of the question | Ask questions that help you narrow down the scope of the question. |
3. Choose a goal | Pick a goal that you think is strategically important to the success of the product given its current state. |
4. List the user groups and select one | List user groups and select the one user group you will be focusing on. Explain why you picked the particular user group. |
5. List and prioritize the use cases/pain points | Show your empathy towards users by highlighting user experiences that need improvement. |
6. Brainstorm solutions | Brainstorm ideas that solve the pain points you identified. List at least 5 practical and implementable solutions. |
7. Evaluate solutions | Assess the solutions based on evaluation criteria such as user impact, frequency of usage, business impact, implementation and time to develop. |
8. Optional: Define metrics | Suggest metrics that help you measure your success in solving the user pain points you’re trying to solve. |
8. 9. Summarize your answer | Highlight the improvement goal, selected user group and use cases, your proposed solution, and the metrics you’ll be using to track your progress. |