Hi everyone, I'm interviewing for a PM role at Google and my friend recently told me she got the question "Design Youtube for aliens on the moon." What's the best strategy to tackle the needs/problems of a made up species? How could designing for aliens be different from designing for humans?
Best way to crack a pm interview is to not care about the problem domain. This is like any other question. Don’t get bothered. Use the framework you have decided or created or used or referenced. I generally start with clarifying questions “what does this mean” “where do they watch this” “ who is defined as aliens” “why only YouTube what other things can they use “ Then identify goals and objective- why do you want to design ? What needle are you moving Then identify users / personas - aliens is one but how about content creators , partners that source the devices, astronauts if transported from earth lol be as crazy as the question Then identify their scenarios and use cases Walk through some and pick one scenario and one user persona Talk about their pain points Talk about potential Solutions Pros and cons of all and present your criteria for prioritizing and then recommend one. Summarize You are all done YouTube is now available for aliens lol 😂
You might want to ask if "aliens" she means residency legal status.
The best strategy is to ask yourself why you’d want to work for a company that asks absurd questions during an interview that don’t reflect even vaguely on what a REAL product development process would look like.
Everything has pros and cons. Most companies hire PMs for a specific role. So they want old experience that can be used again. Goog and FB have a generalist interview which is better if you don't want to be labeled a growth pm or mktg pm or ab testing pm or ml pm.
what the hell is this comment? the way you product design YouTube for kids and design YouTube for aliens on the moon should be pretty similar. ask who your users are understand their use cases design a solution for them the benefit of this question is that it also tests your creativity.
I hate questions like this and really wish people would stop asking them...
Why? This isn't like a puzzle question or anything. All it does is set some arbitrary constraints for you to design around. Almost makes it easier for the candidate.
I would be really worried if people stopped asking questions like this. This is the best way to see people in a real life situation approach. A problem that doesn't have a clear answer. If we start asking people about their work history or a time when they face a certain problem, we're just going to end up hiring the same bullshitters.
These are silly questions and further explain why sometimes interviews are not good indicators of actual job performance (because interview process was stupid)
These questions should be banned. Wtf. I don’t understand our hiring strategy.
Lol I had something similar but for the technical round not the PM case rounds. Passed it apparently but it was real weird.
What was it?
Lmao 🤣 stop cheating the interview. Just be smart and emphatic to do well on these interviews, something you clearly lack since you're leaking a question.
I mean, if the questions are as outrageous and stupid like this one, there is no harm in trying to cheat. Fuck the interviewer who selected a stupid ass question like this.
Hahahaha all Fb interview questions are such smart ones that we end up with smart-asses here 😂🤣
“But what about the ones already here....? We don’t want to miss any buyer personas”
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Damn guess I need to stop using that question now that it leaked...
Lol
What a system design question.