Product design question
What would be the next app that you delete from your phone? Explain why.
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Self-awareness and honest, specific product critique applied to your own daily behavior.
How to approach it
- Pick a genuine app you rarely use or find frustrating, not a safe generic answer.
- Explain specifically why it lost your engagement, whether poor onboarding, notification fatigue, or being replaced by a better alternative.
- Contrast it with what a competing app does better, showing comparative product judgment.
- Note if there is a scenario where you would keep or reinstall it, showing balanced thinking.
- Avoid picking an app that seems designed to flatter the interviewing company.
- Keep the reasoning grounded in real usage behavior, not hypothetical annoyance.
What a strong answer includes
- Picks a genuinely specific app and a specific, believable reason for abandoning it, not a generic complaint.
- Compares it directly to a competitor that solved the same need better, showing real product judgment.
- Notes an honest edge case where they might still use it, avoiding an overly absolute answer.
Common mistakes
- Picking a safe, vague answer with no real specificity or reasoning.
- No comparison to what does the job better, missing the analytical opportunity.
- Choosing an app that obviously flatters the interviewing company, which reads as inauthentic.
Likely follow-up questions
- What would that app need to change for you to use it again?
- What is an app you would never delete, 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