Product Design Interview: How to Structure a Feature Design Answer
What was corrected
Unverified verbatim quotes attributed to Shreyas Doshi ('The best product design answers start with...') and Jackie Bavaro ('Users open the app and close it within 10 seconds...'); unsourced specific attribution to Marty Cagan; Gibson Biddle 'DHM model' content (verified accurate, kept); reference list included a disguised cross-site link to whennotesfly.com labeled 'Google Careers', and an unverifiable 'Meta Careers' citation; three unverified-precision statistics in example answers ('approximately 60% of sessions', '50-60% notification opt-in', '30-40% digest open rates').
De-attributed Doshi and Bavaro quotes to plain prose describing their general published views; softened Cagan attribution slightly; kept Gibson Biddle DHM model content unchanged since it is real and accurately attributed; removed the disguised whennotesfly.com cross-link masquerading as 'Google Careers' and the unverifiable 'Meta Careers' reference entry; softened all three statistics in example answers to qualitative, defensible language modeling appropriate interview caution about unverified numbers.
Suggested change
De-attributed the Doshi and Bavaro quotes while preserving accurate framing of their real published views; softened the Cagan attribution to general framing; kept the Gibson Biddle DHM model content since it is real and accurately attributed, just adjusted framing slightly; removed the disguised cross-site-link citation and the unverifiable Meta Careers citation from the reference list; softened all three fabricated statistics in the example answers to qualitative, defensible language that models appropriate interview caution about unverified numbers.
Why this is better
Fixed 8 flagged findings: de-attributed two unverified verbatim quotes (Doshi, Bavaro) while preserving accurate framing of their real published views; softened an unsourced Cagan attribution; kept the verified-accurate Gibson Biddle DHM model content with only minor framing adjustment; removed a references-list entry disguised as an external Google Careers citation that actually linked to whennotesfly.com within the same content network, plus an unverifiable Meta Careers citation; softened three unverified-precision statistics embedded in example interview answers to qualitative language.
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