Product design question
You're a product manager at DoorDash. What feature will you improve?
- Walmart
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Ability to pick and defend one specific improvement to an existing delivery product rather than list many.
How to approach it
- Pick a segment: assume the customer-facing ordering experience, the largest user base, unless told otherwise.
- Identify a specific pain point: order accuracy and missing items, a well-known, frequently cited complaint in food delivery.
- Explain why it matters: missing items drive refunds, support costs, and directly hurt trust and repeat usage.
- Propose an item-by-item photo or checklist confirmation step for the courier before handoff.
- Weigh the trade-off: adds a few seconds to handoff time, so keep it lightweight, a single tap per item, not a full re-scan.
- Define success as reduced missing-item support tickets and refund rate without materially increasing delivery time.
What a strong answer includes
- Picks one specific, well-known real pain point, order accuracy, instead of a scattershot list.
- Explicitly weighs the trade-off, a few extra seconds versus materially fewer refunds, showing product judgment.
- Gives a plausible success metric tied directly to the fix, refund rate, not just vague 'satisfaction.'
Common mistakes
- Naming a vague improvement like 'make the app better' with no specific pain point.
- Ignoring the operational cost, courier time, of the proposed fix.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you get couriers to actually comply with this extra step?
- What would you measure in the first two weeks of a pilot?
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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