Strategy question
Google has acquired Bank of America and asks you to launch a product within six months. What product would you launch and why?
- Strategy
- Hard
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What this question tests
Fast product strategy under a hypothetical, testing whether the candidate can combine two companies' real assets into a focused, shippable idea.
How to approach it
- Clarify scope: a consumer product, a business or SMB product, or infrastructure play, since 6 months constrains ambition.
- Identify the combined asset: Google's AI and data capability plus Bank of America's banking license and trust infrastructure.
- Propose a focused idea achievable in 6 months: an AI powered spending insights layer inside an existing BoA account experience.
- Justify the choice: it uses existing accounts and regulatory rails, the fastest to ship, while showcasing Google's AI as differentiator.
- Define success: adoption rate among existing BoA digital banking users, and engagement with AI driven insights.
What a strong answer includes
- Respects the 6 month constraint by building on existing infrastructure instead of proposing a new banking product from scratch.
- Combines both companies' real strengths rather than picking only one.
- Names a believable adoption metric tied to BoA's existing large digital user base.
Common mistakes
- Proposing something requiring a new banking charter or long regulatory approval, unrealistic within 6 months.
- Using only one company's asset and ignoring the other's actual infrastructure.
Likely follow-up questions
- What regulatory risks would you flag before launch?
- How would you handle data sharing concerns between the two companies' users?
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Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 9: Prove it paid off: outcomes, economics, and pricing
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop