Product design question
What are three products you use daily?
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Simple self awareness and product taste check, often used as an icebreaker to see how a candidate evaluates everyday products.
How to approach it
- Name three specific products you genuinely use daily, ideally from different categories.
- For each, briefly explain the core job it does for you.
- Pick one and go slightly deeper on what makes its design or experience effective.
- Note one thing you would improve about that product if you were its PM.
What a strong answer includes
- Names specific, real products rather than vague categories like 'a messaging app'.
- Goes one level deeper on at least one product, showing genuine product thinking, not just a list.
- Offers a specific improvement idea, demonstrating a builder's mindset even in casual conversation.
Common mistakes
- Gives a generic list with no reasoning about why each product works well.
- Names only work related tools with no personal reflection on daily habits.
Likely follow-up questions
- What would you improve about that product if you were its PM?
- What is a product you used to use daily but stopped, and why?
- Which of these three products has the strongest competitive moat, in your view?
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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