Product design question
How would you improve Zoom?
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What this question tests
Product design judgment: finding a real pain point in a mature, widely used video conferencing tool.
How to approach it
- Users: segment by context, work meetings versus large webinars versus casual personal calls.
- Pain points: meeting fatigue, difficulty following who is speaking in large calls, and friction switching between screen share and video.
- Prioritize: pick the highest-frequency pain, likely engagement and fatigue in long meetings.
- Solution: propose a feature like automated meeting summaries or a lighter-weight async video update mode to reduce live meeting load.
- Success metric: reduction in average meeting length, or adoption rate of the async alternative.
- Confirm scope: whether the improvement targets enterprise IT admins or end users directly.
What a strong answer includes
- Picks a specific, well known pain point, meeting fatigue, grounded in common knowledge about remote work.
- Proposes a concrete feature, like AI-generated meeting recaps, rather than a vague usability tweak.
- Defines success narrowly, for example percent of meetings under 30 minutes increasing after the change.
Common mistakes
- Proposing a UI-only redesign with no underlying user pain identified.
- No segmentation between meeting types with very different needs.
- Vague success metric like general satisfaction.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you validate that meeting fatigue is the top pain point to solve for?
- What would you cut from Zoom's current feature set to reduce bloat?
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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