Product design question

What is the worst designed Google product? Why? How would you improve it?

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

Product critique skill: can the candidate diagnose a real design flaw with specifics and propose a grounded fix, not just complain.

Pick a specific, well known Google product rather than a vague or obscure one.
State clearly why it is poorly designed: name the actual friction point users hit, not a general dislike.
Connect the flaw to a likely root cause, such as competing internal priorities or unclear ownership.
Propose a specific improvement addressing that root cause.
State a metric that would show the improvement worked, such as task completion rate or support ticket volume.

Chooses a defensible example, for example Google Assistant's inconsistent behavior across devices, and explains the specific inconsistency.
Diagnoses a likely cause, such as fragmented ownership across hardware and software teams, rather than just saying it is 'confusing'.
Proposes a concrete fix, like unifying the command set across devices, and a way to measure success such as command success rate.

Picking an example but only listing complaints without a specific root cause or fix.
Choosing a product that was already deprecated or clearly out of scope, undermining credibility.

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