Product design question

How would you improve YouTube?

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

Ability to find a real user pain point in a mature product and propose a focused improvement, not a feature dump.

Pick a user segment, for example casual viewers versus creators, since 'improve YouTube' means different things to each.
State a real pain point for that segment, such as difficulty finding a specific moment inside a long video.
Prioritize this over a list of unrelated ideas, since one deep improvement beats five shallow ones in an interview.
Propose a solution: AI generated chapter markers and a visual scrub bar showing scene changes.
Explain why this matters: reduces search time and increases completion rate for long form content.
Define success as watch time on videos over 20 minutes and search within video usage rate.

Picks one specific segment and pain point instead of a scattershot list of unrelated feature ideas.
Ties the proposal to a business outcome, more watch time on long videos, which YouTube's ad model rewards.
Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes a 10 percent increase in completion for videos with auto generated chapters.
Considers the creator side too, noting chapters could also boost mid roll ad placement opportunities.

Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.