Product design question
How would you increase retention for Oyo Rooms?
- Flipkart
- Product design
- Medium
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What this question tests
Retention strategy for a hospitality booking platform, addressing trust and repeat booking behavior.
How to approach it
- Clarify what drives repeat bookings: consistent quality across properties, since Oyo's brand promise is standardization.
- Identify the core retention risk: inconsistent property quality erodes trust after a single bad stay experience.
- Prioritize quality consistency and verified reviews over discounting, since discounts do not fix an underlying trust problem.
- Propose a loyalty program with tangible benefits, such as guaranteed room upgrades or free cancellation for repeat customers.
- Add a post stay feedback loop that flags underperforming properties for quality review before they can accept new bookings.
- Define success as repeat booking rate within 90 days and reduction in one star reviews citing quality inconsistency.
What a strong answer includes
- Correctly identifies quality consistency, not price, as the core lever for a budget hotel aggregator's retention.
- Proposes a concrete quality enforcement mechanism, flagging underperforming properties, not just customer facing loyalty perks.
- Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes reducing 1 star review rate from 8 percent to 4 percent would meaningfully lift repeat bookings.
- Balances customer facing loyalty benefits with a supply side quality control mechanism, addressing both halves of the marketplace.
Common mistakes
- Proposing discounts as the primary retention lever without addressing the underlying quality consistency problem.
- Ignoring the supply side of the marketplace, focusing only on customer facing loyalty perks.
- No metric tied to quality consistency specifically.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle a property that repeatedly underperforms?
- Would you prioritize loyalty perks or quality fixes first?
- How would you measure quality consistency across thousands of properties?
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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
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