Product design question
How would you improve Google Assistant?
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Tests product improvement thinking on a mature AI product, requiring a specific, high-value gap rather than a generic wishlist.
How to approach it
- Identify a real gap: multi-step, multi-app tasks, like booking a specific restaurant table, still fail or require falling back to a phone screen.
- Segment on users who rely on voice hands-free, drivers and users with accessibility needs, where screen fallback isn't a real option.
- Identify the pain point: the assistant handles single commands well but breaks down on tasks needing multiple confirmations or third-party app handoffs.
- Propose deeper task completion for a few high-value flows, restaurant booking, ride-hailing, and calendar scheduling, with reliable multi-turn confirmation.
- Define success as task completion rate for these flows without screen fallback, and repeat usage of voice-only completion.
What a strong answer includes
- Names a specific, real limitation, multi-step task failure, instead of a vague make-it-smarter answer.
- Prioritizes the accessibility and hands-free use case, where the stakes of screen fallback are highest.
- Picks task completion rate as a concrete, testable success metric.
Common mistakes
- Giving a vague answer like make it smarter or more like ChatGPT without a concrete mechanism.
- Ignoring the hands-free and accessibility use case, where this gap matters most.
Likely follow-up questions
- Which specific task would you prioritize building first?
- How would you measure whether users trust the assistant enough to complete tasks hands-free?
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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