Product design question
If you were to join LinkedIn today, what feature would you build that can enhance the worldwide workforce?
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Tests product sense for a broad, global-scale opportunity, requiring the candidate to narrow scope to a real underserved segment.
How to approach it
- Narrow worldwide workforce to a specific segment, informal or gig workers, or workers in emerging markets without formal resumes.
- Identify the pain point: these workers lack a way to build credible work history on LinkedIn without traditional employer records.
- Propose a verified skills and gig history profile module where past clients or employers can attest to specific completed work.
- Prioritize by reach, emerging markets like India, Southeast Asia and Africa, LinkedIn's largest growth pool of underrepresented workers.
- Define success as profile completion rate for this segment, employer response rate to these profiles, and new-market signup activation.
What a strong answer includes
- Picks one concrete underserved segment instead of a vague global answer.
- Ties the opportunity to LinkedIn's actual stated growth markets.
- Defines a credible verification mechanism, client attestation, to solve the trust gap for gig workers.
Common mistakes
- Giving a generic feature, like better job search, that ignores the worldwide and enhance-the-workforce framing.
- Not picking a specific segment to focus the design on.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you verify these attestations are real and not gamed?
- Which market would you pilot this in first, and why?
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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