Strategy question

You are eating in your company cafeteria and someone taps you on your shoulder. It's your CEO asking you what the company should do next. What would you do?

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

Strategic prioritization under an open-ended, high-pressure prompt: can the candidate structure an answer quickly rather than freeze or ramble.

Acknowledge the ambiguity briefly and state you would ask one clarifying question first, such as whether the CEO means the next quarter's priority or a longer term bet.
State a structured framework you would use on the spot: current market position, biggest unmet customer need, and biggest competitive threat.
Give a real, grounded example answer for the company being interviewed at, naming a specific opportunity or threat relevant to that company's actual market position.
Justify the recommendation briefly with one supporting reason, such as a known competitive gap or emerging customer trend.
Acknowledge you would want data and cross-functional input before this became a real commitment, showing this is a hypothesis, not a final answer.

Handles the pressure with a clear, fast framework rather than freezing or giving an unstructured, rambling answer.
Gives a specific, defensible recommendation for the real company in the room, not a generic 'invest in AI' answer that could apply anywhere.
Explicitly frames the answer as a hypothesis needing validation, showing appropriate humility for a hallway-conversation-level question.

Giving an answer so generic it could apply to any company, missing the chance to show real company knowledge.
Freezing under the pressure of the scenario instead of structuring a quick, confident answer.

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