Product design question

How would you improve the sign up process for LinkedIn?

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What this question tests

Product sense for reducing friction in a critical top of funnel conversion moment.

Identify the drop off point: users abandon signup when asked for too much profile detail (work history, skills) up front.
Segment by intent: job seekers want to move fast, recruiters filling a profile for networking may be more patient.
Prioritize reducing required fields at signup, deferring detailed profile building to after the account is created.
Propose importing profile data automatically from a resume upload or an existing professional email signature to pre-fill fields.
Add progressive prompts after signup, asking for one additional detail at a time instead of all at once.
Define success as signup completion rate and time to complete initial signup, with profile completeness tracked as a secondary metric over the following week.

Correctly diagnoses the likely drop off cause, too many required fields up front, a known pattern in professional network signups.
Proposes a concrete technical solution, resume import auto fill, rather than just saying 'simplify the form'.
Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes cutting required fields from 12 to 4 could lift completion rate by 15 percent.
Separates signup completion from profile completeness as two different metrics, avoiding a fast but empty signup problem.

Proposing to simply remove all fields with no plan for how profile data gets filled in later.
Not distinguishing signup completion from actual profile quality, which matters for LinkedIn's core product value.
No specific number or field level detail, just a vague 'make it shorter' answer.

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