Product design question
Design a product for event gathering for Google.
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What this question tests
Ability to scope an open ended design prompt to a specific user and need rather than listing generic features.
How to approach it
- Clarify whether event gathering means discovery or creation and RSVP, and state the chosen scope.
- Pick a target user, someone new to a city looking for things to do this weekend.
- Identify the pain point, fragmented event information across many separate sites.
- Propose the solution, a Search and Maps surface aggregating local events with one tap add to Calendar and directions.
- Define success, event page click through and RSVP to calendar conversion.
What a strong answer includes
- Leverages Google's real assets, Search, Maps, and Calendar, instead of a standalone app competing from scratch.
- Names a concrete feature, a this weekend near you carousel pulling from Maps listings and local event feeds.
- States a clear metric target, for example a 15 percent lift in Calendar adds from event searches, marked as an assumption.
Common mistakes
- Staying so broad the answer could apply to any company.
- No mention of how event data would be sourced and kept fresh.
- Skipping a success metric entirely.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you keep event data accurate and current?
- How would this compete with existing event platforms?
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Learn the skill behind it
Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop