Product design question

What's your favorite Microsoft product and 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

Whether you have genuine, specific product opinions rather than generic praise.

Pick a specific product you actually use, like Teams, Excel, or OneNote, and state why it is your favorite in one clear reason.
Identify the single biggest friction you personally experience using it.
Propose a specific, scoped improvement addressing that friction, not a full redesign.
Explain the tradeoff your improvement creates, like added complexity for a simpler interface.
State how you would validate the improvement helps before shipping broadly.
Keep the answer personal and concrete rather than a generic feature wishlist.

Picks a real, specific product and gives a genuine, personal reason for liking it rather than a generic answer.
Names one concrete friction point, like OneNote's search being weak for handwritten notes, and a specific fix.
Explains a real tradeoff of the proposed fix, showing balanced thinking rather than a wishlist.

Giving a generic answer like I like Excel because it is powerful, with no specific reasoning.
Listing many improvements with no prioritization or tradeoff discussion.
No personal grounding, sounding like a rehearsed answer.

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