Product design question
Your goal is to make Pixel the best phone in the world. What are the top three things you would focus on over the next two years?
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Long horizon product strategy: picking a small set of high leverage bets for a hardware product against dominant competition.
How to approach it
- State Pixel's position: strong camera and AI software but small share versus Samsung and Apple.
- Pick areas that compound: on device AI differentiation, computational photography, and software update longevity.
- For each, name the concrete bet, such as deeper Gemini integration tied to the Tensor chip that competitors cannot easily copy.
- Justify why these three and not others, such as not chasing display specs where Samsung already leads.
- Define success metrics: share of Android AI feature users, camera benchmark rankings, two year retention.
What a strong answer includes
- Chooses differentiation Google actually controls rather than generic hardware specs.
- Explains why promising years of updates builds trust that a one time feature does not.
- Gives an illustrative target, such as growing US share from roughly 4 percent toward 8 percent.
Common mistakes
- Listing generic wishes like better battery without tying them to what Google can specifically win on.
- Picking more than three areas, diluting the focus the question asks for.
Likely follow-up questions
- Which of these three would you cut if you had to pick only one?
- How would you measure whether the AI differentiation is actually driving purchase decisions?
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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