Taken from: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-definitive-guide-to-mastering

Criteria + Top Down Guide

• Clear communication: Delivering an easy-to-follow response with solid structure
• Product motivation: Examining the product’s purpose and mission (5 min)
• Segmentation: Defining the audience and prioritizing a target segment (10 min)
• Problem identification: Listing and prioritizing key pain points faced by the chosen segment (10 min)
• Solution development: Brainstorming and prioritizing a solution for the problem, including a v1 (10 min)

Baseline Skill: Communication

There are three components to address for clear communication:

1. Waypointing: Take a pause to work for 1-2 minutes and come up with what they want to say. Once you’re ready to share, walk the interviewer through your response for that section and check in with the interviewer before proceeding to the following section
2. Assumption setting: Make 2-4 assumptions at the start of the interview that narrow the scope to a manageable exercise without prematurely limiting your solution space
3. Game plan articulation: Clearly outline your approach for the entire interview, showing the interviewer how you’ll structure your time

A few potential assumptions to state you should really hone in on:

• Role and context: State your assumed role and the company/product context for the exercise
• Geographic focus: Specify whether you’ll focus on a specific market or region for your response
• Platform and constraints: Identify any technical or strategic constraints that will help focus your solution, without over-limiting possibilities

Here’s a template for how you might want to start: