Post by Paras Kamble

Google pays $150K–$200K for mid-level product designers. Meta pays $160K–$220K. Airbnb pays $140K–$190K. Spotify and Atlassiann are right behind them. Swiggy and Razorpay are the Indian equivalents and the interview bar is nearly the same. The gap between getting an offer and losing one almost always comes down to the same three things: Portfolio storytelling. Design thinking. Product sense. Here are 36 questions that show up across every round at these companies: 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗼 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 1. Walk me through your best project end-to-end 2. What was the biggest constraint you worked under? 3. How did you handle pushback from engineering? 4. Show me a decision you got wrong and what you changed 5. What metrics moved after your design shipped? 6. How do you decide when to stop iterating? 7. How do you present designs to non-design stakeholders? 8. What would you do differently if you restarted this project? 9. Why did you make that specific visual decision? 10. How do you balance business goals with user needs? 11. Show me your process from brief to final handoff 12. What does your design critique process look like? 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 13. Redesign Google Maps for first-time users 14. How would you improve Spotify's discovery experience? 15. Design an onboarding flow for Airbnb hosts 16. How do you design for accessibility and inclusion? 17. Walk me through your research process 18. How do you validate a design without user testing? 19. What is your framework for prioritising features? 20. How do you approach designing for edge cases? 21. How would you reduce drop-off in a multi-step checkout? 22. How do you think about information architecture? 23. What is the difference between usability and desirability? 24. How do you approach designing a 0-to-1 product? 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 25. How would you define success for this feature? 26. Pick a product you use daily. What would you fix first? 27. How do you think about retention vs acquisition in design? 28. How would you design LinkedIn's job apply flow to reduce friction? 29. What is DAU/MAU and why should designers care? 30. How does A/B testing influence your design decisions? 31. Design a feature to improve Amazon's post-purchase experience 32. How would you design Uber's surge pricing communication differently? 33. How do you measure the impact of a redesign 34. How would you improve Atlassian's onboarding for new teams? 35. How does design contribute to reducing churn? 36. How would you think about monetising a free design tool? 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄? 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝟯𝟬𝟬+ 𝗙𝗔𝗔𝗡𝗚 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗷𝗼𝗯𝘀. 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://lnkd.in/dy4Z8e2G