Product design question
You are a product manager at LinkedIn. Design a product forpeople with disabilities to find a good job.
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Tests inclusive product design, identifying accessibility-specific pain points in the job-search funnel, not just general job search.
How to approach it
- Segment on job seekers with visible or invisible disabilities navigating both platform accessibility and employer bias.
- Identify pain points: unclear which employers genuinely accommodate, disclosure-timing anxiety, and accessibility gaps in the core apply flow itself.
- Propose a verified accommodations and accessibility employer filter or badge, plus disclosure-timing guidance content.
- Audit and fix core apply-flow accessibility, such as screen-reader compatibility, alongside the information layer.
- Define success as application-to-interview rate for users using the filter, employer badge adoption, and a WCAG accessibility audit score.
What a strong answer includes
- Separates two distinct problems, platform accessibility and information asymmetry about employer accommodations, and addresses both.
- Proposes a verifiable badge instead of self-reported claims alone, protecting trust in the signal.
- Treats disability as a spectrum of needs rather than one homogeneous group.
Common mistakes
- Addressing only platform UI accessibility while ignoring the employer-information and disclosure problem, or the reverse.
- Treating people with disabilities as a single group with identical needs.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you verify employer accommodation claims so they aren't misleading?
- How would you handle the sensitivity of disability disclosure in the product?
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- Design a TV for a car.Google · Product design · Hard
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- Redesign Twitter for eCommerce.Shopify · Product design · Hard
- How would you go about designing a new location sharing app for Google?Google · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Google Home?Google · Product design · Easy
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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