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Product sense

Open product cases that move between understanding users, choosing what to build, scoping a first version and judging results. It suits product managers and product-minded designers and engineers from mid-level up. Follow-ups push for a specific user, a reason to prioritise one idea over another, and a metric that would prove it worked.

Suits: Product manager, Senior product manager, Associate product manager, Product owner, Group product manager

Questions
4 of 17
Length
30 min
Format
Voice or typed
Levels
Mid to Staff
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Example
  1. Interviewer: Tell me about a time you changed someone's mind at work. How did you go about it?

  2. Candidate: Our team wanted to rebuild the billing page from scratch, and I thought it was the wrong call, so we put together a plan to…

  3. Follow-up

    Interviewer: You said "we". What did you say yourself, and what finally changed their mind?

  4. Scored on

    • User understanding25%
    • Problem framing and prioritisation25%
    • Solution quality20%
    • Metrics and judgement20%

    Score, reasons and recording. Your team decides.

An example exchange. This interview's own questions open when you use it.

What it listens for, and how much each part counts.

Every answer is scored against this guide, with the reasoning written beside the score. You get the recording or the written answers too, and your team makes the call.

  • User understanding25%
    Grounds every answer in a specific user and a real need.
  • Problem framing and prioritisation25%
    Finds the real problem and explains why it comes first.
  • Solution quality20%
    Proposes focused, buildable solutions with a sensible first version.
  • Metrics and judgement20%
    Picks metrics that prove success and weighs mixed results fairly.
  • Communication10%
    Structures the answer so it is easy to follow.
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