Product design question
How would you improve Big Basket's customer experience?
- BigBasket
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Product improvement for an online grocery marketplace: identifying friction specific to grocery shopping, like freshness and substitutions.
How to approach it
- Identify the user: time-pressed households doing weekly grocery shopping online, often price and freshness sensitive.
- Name pain points specific to grocery: unreliable delivery windows, out-of-stock items substituted poorly, and produce freshness inconsistency.
- Propose a solution: a smarter substitution flow where users pre-approve specific alternate items per product, instead of the app choosing at delivery time.
- Propose a second improvement: real time delivery slot accuracy with proactive notification if a slot will be missed.
- Prioritize substitutions first since poor substitutions are a top driver of repeat-order dissatisfaction in grocery e-commerce.
- Define success as reduction in substitution-related complaints and increase in repeat weekly order rate.
What a strong answer includes
- Targets grocery-specific pain points, substitutions and freshness, instead of generic e-commerce complaints like checkout speed.
- Proposes a concrete mechanism, user pre-approved substitution preferences, rather than a vague 'improve substitutions' statement.
- Picks repeat weekly order rate as the success metric, which reflects grocery's habitual purchase pattern better than one-time conversion.
Common mistakes
- Proposing generic e-commerce fixes that ignore what makes grocery shopping different (perishables, substitutions).
- Ignoring delivery reliability, which is often the top complaint in grocery apps.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle a user who never sets substitution preferences?
- How would you balance substitution flexibility against delivery speed?
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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 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop