Senior Product Designer Interview Questions
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Senior Product Designer interview questions shared by candidates
Whay do you think about the market in Mexico?
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Market is doesn't metter, skill is main metter.
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Market does not metter, skill is main metter.
Talk me through your design thinking for the design challenge.
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Could you elaborate on the interview questions? What other stages were involved and how did you go about them? Less
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It's essential to demonstrate that you can really go deep... there are plenty of followup questions and (sometimes tangential) angles to explore. There's a lot of Senior Product Designer experts who've worked at Curve, who provide this sort of practice through mock interviews. There's a whole list of them curated on Prepfully. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
How I thought through a complicated project of mine in the past.
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With a PowerPoint presentation.
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Design Challenge: Please design data visualizations for how a teacher might learn about their students via some web application.
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I submitted my design challenge noted above.
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Through questions like this, interviewers are mostly trying to test your skillset (and its relevance to the role) as robustly as possible, so be prepared for multiple offshoots and followups. It could be a useful exercise to do mocks with friends or colleagues in SurveyMonkey to get a real sense of what the interview is actually like. Alternatively Prepfully has a ton of SurveyMonkey Senior Product Designer experts who provide mock interviews for a pretty reasonable amount. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
Design challenge was super basic and very open ended. Not inspiring at all.
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I completed the challenge. After it was all said and done, it just seemed like a way to get free work from designers that directly applied to this company, rather than vet your talent level, which can be done with technical interviews and portfolio review (and is why designers spend time on portfolios). Less
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There's quite an extended back and forth in actual interviews for questions like this, so nothing quite like real practice. The Prepfully DuckDuckGo Senior Product Designer experts have actually worked in this role, so they're able to do an honest-to-God accurate mock, which really puts you through the paces. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
The first interview was to have a conversation about my previous experience while getting a sense of a cultural fit. No difficult question.
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Through questions like this, interviewers are mostly trying to test your skillset (and its relevance to the role) as robustly as possible, so be prepared for multiple offshoots and followups. It could be a useful exercise to do mocks with friends or colleagues in Udemy to get a real sense of what the interview is actually like. Alternatively Prepfully has a ton of Udemy Senior Product Designer experts who provide mock interviews for a pretty reasonable amount. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
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The 2nd interview was a 1-hour portfolio presentation with a deck to the team. They expected astonishing visual designs and push-through process. Less
Thanks in advance to prepare a design proposal and present to us the approach and the UX methodology you used to work on the following task: Brief : deliverable - Homepage redesign by bringing a Community and social dimension to the experience - Version iOS or Android - Inspiration from our Design system ( as enclosed to this mail)
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I cataloged my experience and provided a two-page critique of the design challenge, as well as spent about 20 hours on the design exercise. I wasn't supplied a brand guideline, so didn't attempt to make the experience exactly as the brand's. I also took an issue with passing along spec work while not being compensated, so used a generic brand so to keep from the IP being assumed as the company's property. (I know, that it even had to come to that :( ...) Less
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It's problematic to say the least. I think the other issue with this whole process is that the process to put the work together was considerate and careful. The requests and the organization's response to any of what I sampled was short and came off thoughtless. It's really hard to know or gauge the reason, as there was no feedback as to why the decision was made. I like to think that these interactions are indicative of the type of company I would pass on. Did you receive any feedback for your exercise? Less
What is your [design/development] process?
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It all depends on the client, the product/project, structure of team, etc.
