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Here is the complete list of Product Improvement Interview Questions and Answers asked during Product Management Interviews for you -

  1. How would you improve Gmail?

  2. How would you improve YouTube?

  3. How would you improve Facebook Birthdays?

  4. How would you improve LinkedIn?

  5. How would you improve Grammarly?

  6. How would you improve Google Maps?

  7. How would you improve WhatsApp?

  8. How would you improve Facebook Stories?

  9. How would you improve usage of Facebook Groups?

  10. How would you improve Yelp?

  11. How would you improve Instagram?

  12. What is your favorite product? Why?

  13. Give an example of a badly designed product. How would you improve it?

  14. How would you improve user engagement on WhatsApp?

  15. How will you improve engagement on LinkedIn?

  16. How would you improve Facebook for commuters?

  17. How would you improve Facebook Marketplace?

  18. How would you improve Google Photos?

  19. How will you solve the problem of misinformation on FB?

  20. You are a PM at Flipkart. The company has decided to increase the userbase of age >60 years on the platform. What will you do?

  21. How would you improve Facebook Reactions?

  22. How would you improve Spotify?

  23. How would you improve Amazon?

  24. How would you improve Uber?

  25. How would you improve Twitter?

  26. How would you improve Netflix?

  27. How would you improve Tiktok?

  28. Spotify has a 1-month trial membership. We noticed that users were not converting to paid membership after the free trial. From a product standpoint, what can you do to improve user engagement and subsequent customer retention?

  29. How would you double active users on Facebook Shop weekly when only 6% of FB users remain active in the first week and 0.4% remain active after 3 weeks?

  30. How would you improve Linkedin jobs?

  31. How do you prioritize a customer facing feature with X impact on engagement vs a tech driven task like upgrading the libraries to eliminate legacy bugs which have no immediately visible impact?

  32. How would you improve the Facebook Timeline?

  33. How can Google help improve the grocery shopping experience of users?

  34. How would you improve Uber for a football event?

  35. How would you make WhatsApp more user-friendly for the elderly to use?

  36. How would you improve LinkedIn messenger?

  37. How would you improve the sign up process for LinkedIn?

  38. How would you improve Twitch to make creators run more ads on the platform?

  39. How would you improve Discord?

  40. How would you improve Facebook tagging?

  41. How would you improve the Quora website? What will be your strategy to engage more users?

  42. How would you improve Instagram stories?

  43. How would you improve Google Drive?

  44. How would you improve Google Pay?

  45. You have decided to build the feature 'Sharing recommendations' for Netflix. What happens next?

  46. How can the service of Facebook Messenger be improved?

  47. Redesign Twitter for eCommerce.

  48. How would you improve the video experience on Facebook?

  49. How would you improve Google Home?

  50. Design a new feature for Twitter that improves the new user’s experience.


  51. How would you improve Venmo?

  52. How would you increase the number of users who save products to a list on Amazon's product details page? Suppose that user testing has shown many users are unaware the list feature exists.

  53. How would you improve Google Docs?

  54. What would be a *new* feature or a product that you would like to launch on Facebook?

  55. How would you improve Amazon.com or Amazon.in?

  56. How would you improve Yelp?

  57. You're the new product manager for YouTube and you notice a drop in video engagement by 15% over the past two weeks. What do you do?

  58. How do you solve the ‘fake messages’ problem in WhatsApp/other messaging platforms?

  59. As a PM for Google Maps, how would you improve the restaurant search?

  60. How would you improve Instacart?

  61. Design a jobs product for Facebook.

  62. You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for budgeting.

  63. How would you reduce Gmail storage size?

  64. How would you improve Google Chromecast?

  65. How would you improve the Starbucks app?

  66. How would you improve the Uber app?

  67. How would you improve Facebook's safety check feature?

  68. Pick an airport you are familiar with. How would you improve it?

  69. How would you improve Facebook Portal?

  70. How would you improve Duolingo?

  71. Improve the in-store grocery shopping experience.

  72. How would you improve image search?

  73. What is a product you currently use every day, why and how would you improve it?

  74. How would you improve Microsoft Teams?

  75. What data points or metrics might have made the Product team at Instagram to hide the number of likes from posts for viewers and show it only for creators?

  76. How would you improve Waze as a PM?

  77. How would you improve Facebook Rooms?

  78. You are the PM for Facebook newsfeed. How would you improve it?

  79. How would you redesign the Apple App Store?

  80. How do you improve book/pdf/article reading experience on Chrome in mobile or tablet?

  81. How do you improve Instagram's share feature?

  82. How would you improve patient retention by improving the counseling side of a tele-counseling platform?

  83. How would you improve Trello?

  84. How would you improve Google Hangouts?

  85. Give me 10 ways that you will improve a trash can.

  86. What is your favorite Google product? Pick one, and describe how to improve it.  

  87. How would you improve Dropbox?

  88. How would you improve the WhatsApp Search feature?

  89. How would you improve engagement in Trello?

  90. How would you improve Facebook Pages and how would you determine success?

  91. How would you improve a coffee machine used in offices?

  92. Describe one feature that you would like to improve in the Amazon app.

  93. How would you improve the restaurant search?

  94. On a scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate the Facebook Messenger app and why?

  95. What are the key Metrics to measure the performance of a company in food delivery business and how can we improve the ones related to churn rate?

  96. How would you improve the Drafts feature of your mail client?

  97. What privacy feature would you add to WhatsApp?

  98. How would you improve Walmart?

  99. How would you further improve YouTube's share feature ?

  100. How would you solve OpenTable's worst customer experience?

  101. How will you improve LinkedIn for job seekers?

  102. Think of a time you interacted with a government agency (passport, DMV, etc.) and how you would make it better.

  103. How would you improve Microsoft OneNote?

  104. How will you identify the decline in usage of Azure?

  105. How would you improve Amazon Prime ?

  106. How would you improve the airport experience?

  107. How would you improve Google Flights?

  108. How would you improve news sharing on Facebook?

  109. How would you improve Amazon Photos?

  110. How do you improve Slack?

  111. How do you increase the paid subscription base on LinkedIn?

  112. How would you make Google search better ?

  113. You are a Product Manager of CANON (camera manufacturing company), You see your market share decreasing year on year due to higher Mobile phone penetration. How would you increase the revenue and market share of the company?

  114. How would you increase user engagement on Microsoft OneDrive?

  115. Improve Facebook comments.

  116. You are the PM of an OTT service provider (over the top service provider just like Netflix and Hotstar). How would you go about identifying the product improvements required? Explain the thought process to prioritise the features to make it rank better on user experiences.

  117. How would you improve DoorDash's post booking experience once the user has ordered their meal?

  118. How would you improve Angel Broking?

  119. How would you improve the search for charities on Bing?

  120. If you have to build a new FB experience for your phone, what would you build?

  121. Design a shared carpool experience for Lyft.

  122. Improve Google Play Store.

  123. Improve the "Sharing Post" feature of Instagram.

  124. How would you improve Facebook Messenger?

  125. How do you improve the check out experience for Airbnb?

  126. How would you improve Instagram Shopping?

  127. How will you improve Reddit's home page?

  128. How would you improve monetization of Facebook stories?

  129. How would you use ML to improve Facebook the newsfeed?

  130. Which Google product don't you like and why? What would you do to improve it?

  131. Take a grocery app - what would be the features you would suggest?

  132. How would you roll out an algorithm improvement for driver matching?

  133. How would you improve the Airbnb app?

  134. Redesign the fire hydrant.

  135. How would you improve the LinkedIn user profile page?

  136. How would you improve the rush hour experience?

  137. How would you improve order conversions by optimising the product descriptions page for a fashion Ecommerce platform?

  138. How do you increase open table restaurant users base?

  139. How would you improve FB profiles and how would you determine its success?

  140. How would you improve Google Assistant?

  141. How would you improve the new user experience on Twitter?

  142. How would you improve customer experience with the Walmart mobile app?

  143. What is a non-technical product that you use everyday and you like? Why do you like it? How would you improve it?

  144. How would you improve Google Meet?

  145. As the PM for the Microsoft Word app on the Android team, design voice interaction features that would deliver simplified productivity experiences for saving time and improving efficiency.

  146. As a PM in the Microsoft OneDrive team, ideate and prioritize features and capabilities that would enable OneDrive to become the most preferred storage solution for all personal needs such as sharing photos and videos, etc.

  147. What is the worst designed Google product? Why? How would you improve it?

  148. You inherited a team/product riddled with issues. What are you going to do as a PM?

  149. What is that one product feature that would change the landscape of Devops/GitOps?

  150. How would you improve Instacart’s homescreen in the app?

  151. Improve Deliveroo.

  152. Design a content recommendation engine for New York Times to improve content/news recommendation to users.

  153. You are a Product Manager for Telegram. What new features will you build?

  154. How would you increase the frequency of YouTube (visits/week/user)?

  155. How would you improve LinkedIn Groups?

  156. How should Yelp identify closed restaurants?

  157. What privacy feature would you add to Twitter?

  158. How would you improve Clubhouse?

  159. How would you improve the user retention of Google calendar by 10x? What what you do to achieve this?

  160. How would you increase the user engagement for Doordash?

  161. Should Twitter build Stories?

  162. How would you improve YouTube music?

  163. How would you improve a trip organiser app like TripCase or TripIt?

  164. How would you improve Yelp’s restaurant search?

  165. What Facebook products can be improved by showing location information? How?

  166. How will you increase the number of users on TikTok?

  167. How would you improve Big Basket's customer experience?

  168. Consider Amazon Prime's search engine. How would you enhance user experience while searching for videos?

  169. How will you improve Google Maps in the remote area for non-tech oriented people?

  170. How would you improve google map for the elderly?

  171. How would you improve Facebook Ads Manager?

  172. How would you improve Twitter news?

  173. What's your favorite Microsoft product and how would you improve it?

  174. How would you improve Notion?

  175. How would you reduce waiting time at popular rides in an amusement park?

  176. How would you improve the Version Control feature in Google Docs?

  177. How would you improve Facebook Jobs?

  178. Improve Robinhood (trading platform).

  179. You're a PM in charge of Robinhood's Option trading feature, how would you improve it?

  180. You're a PM for Twilio. How would you improve the product (what product would you launch next)?

  181. What feature would you include in LinkedIn to increase its revenue?

  182. You are the PM for Google Voice. How you improve it?

  183. Talk about a product you think is not well designed and why. How would you improve it?

  184. How do you improve Slack?

  185. How would you improve the conversion rate of a VPN product?

  186. You are the Product Manager for Zoom Chat. How would you improve it?

  187. Facebook has experienced a lot of negative news coverage and it's causing an erosion of trust in the product. What would you do to increase trust of Facebook?

  188. You are the product manager for the Apple iOS. How would you improve the product?

  189. Improve Craigslist.

  190. How do you help a B2B travel platform to expand their business?

  191. How would you improve Google Earth?

  192. How would you increase the conversion rate of the Airbnb Reservation experience for first timers?

  193. How will you improve the recommendation engine of a streaming services product?

  194. How would you increase the growth rate of Uber?

  195. How would you improve Instagram feed and measure its success?

  196. Improve the battery life of all Windows computers.

  197. How would you improve Zoom?

  198. How to make brands onboarding smoother on Instagram for Influencer marketing.

  199. How would you improve the web browsing experience?

  200. Name 3 of your favorite nontech products and why? Improve one of them.

  201. How would you improve Uber for a concert/festival?

  202. Let’s say that you are the PM for Uber Eats and assume that helping users eat healthier will improve engagement. What new feature will you build to test this assumption?

  203. How would you improve the worst post-booking experience on Opentable?

  204. How would you improve Twitter? What success metrics would you use to track your improvement?

  205. How would you improve OYO?

  206. How would you improve Yelp for businesses? What metrics would you collect?

  207. How would you improve trust in the Bing search results for healthcare?

  208. How would you evaluate the impact of teenagers' use of Facebook when their parents joined Facebook? How would you improve accordingly?

  209. How would you improve adoption of the Bing search engine in India?

  210. How would you improve the take rate for Paypal. Take rate is the percentage of revenue that paypal charges its merchants for all transactions via Paypal.

  211. How would you improve Reddit?

  212. How would you improve the App store?

  213. How would you improve Coinbase?

  214. Improve the current iteration of Snapchat to compete with the likes of Instagram and TikTok.

  215. Tell me a product that you don't like but still use. How will you improve this product?

  216. How would you drive the adoption of Google Docs version control feature?

  217. How do you improve Facebook Watch?

  218. How would you increase the ARPU of LinkedIn learning users?

  219. You're a product manager at DoorDash. What feature will you improve?

  220. Consider you are assigned to find the best Sort option for product list pages. How would you solve this problem?

  221. How would you add an edit option in the application for HR_admin user only for leave details of a particular staff member?

  222. Which is your favourite email client and why?

  223. Pick a non-technical product you use. Why do you like it and why don't you like it? How will you improve it?

  224. What other features would you add to the Twitter app?

  225. Pick a real estate app that you're familiar with. What problem is this solving? How would you improve it?

  226. How would you improve the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing?

  227. Pick an app for listening to music & podcasts. What is this app's goal? What does it do well? What can be improved to drive engagement?

  228. You are a platform PM. How would you improve the current platform and tools for Facebook's AR/VR developers so that they can build solutions with better performance and reliability?

  229. How would you improve Affirm?


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