Find the Most Damaging Failure in a Turo, Ticketmaster or Hotel Trip and Scope an MVP
Company: DoorDash
Role: Product Manager
Category: Product Design & Strategy
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Other
Pick one of three businesses: Ticketmaster, Turo, or a large hotel chain. Describe the worst experience a customer could have with it, then choose a north-star metric and propose an MVP that addresses that experience.
```hint Worst should also be real
Rank candidate failures by how badly they hurt the customer and by how often they plausibly happen, so the MVP targets a breakdown worth fixing rather than a freak edge case.
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### Clarifying Questions
- May I pick whichever of the three businesses I know best, or should the choice reflect something about this role?
- For Turo or the hotel, should I stay on the guest or renter side, or are hosts and hotel staff in scope as users too?
- Does "worst" mean the most damaging moment for a single customer, or the failure that does the most total harm across customers?
- Is the MVP meant to ship quickly on existing app surfaces, or can it include new operational work such as a dedicated support team?
### What a Strong Answer Covers
- A justified choice of business and customer segment, with the journey mapped to show where it breaks
- A worst-case experience chosen on both severity and frequency, with its root causes
- A north-star metric that captures the value the fix restores, plus supporting and guardrail metrics
- A small, testable MVP aimed at the root cause, with an explicit list of what it leaves out
- How the MVP would be tested and which result decides the next step
### Follow-up Questions
- If your MVP depends on the other side of the business (hosts, venues or hotel staff) changing behavior, how do you get them to adopt it?
- How would you keep the fix from being abused, for example by customers falsely reporting a failure to collect credits?
- Would your north-star metric change if you had picked one of the other two businesses? Why?
Overview: A product design prompt that asks the candidate to pick Ticketmaster, Turo or a large hotel chain, find the most damaging experience a customer could have, and turn it into a focused fix. It tests journey mapping, weighing severity against frequency, choosing a north-star metric and scoping a testable MVP.