Product design question

How do you improve Slack?

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Competitor product critique: can the candidate name a specific weakness in a well known product and propose a focused fix.

Confirm the scope with the interviewer, since this is being asked at Dropbox, a Slack competitor and integration partner, which shapes the lens.
Identify the user: knowledge workers managing high message volume across many channels, often missing important messages.
Name the pain point: notification overload and difficulty finding important information buried in fast-moving channels.
Propose a fix: smarter, priority-based notifications that learn which channels and senders matter most to a given user, rather than uniform alerts.
Prioritize this over cosmetic UI changes since notification fatigue is a widely cited driver of Slack dissatisfaction and channel muting.
Define success as reduction in notification mute rate and increase in response rate to flagged important messages.

Grounds the critique in a widely known real complaint, notification overload, rather than a generic wish list.
Proposes a learned prioritization mechanism, not just more notification settings, which would add complexity without solving the core problem.
Frames the answer with awareness of the interviewing company's competitive angle, since this is asked from Dropbox's perspective.

Proposing surface level UI changes instead of addressing the well known notification and information overload problem.
Ignoring that the interviewer is likely probing product sense about a direct competitor to their own collaboration tools.

How would you build a model to prioritize notifications without enough historical data on a new user?
How would this fix affect Slack's engagement metrics, which are often tied to message volume?