Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

BePostive - "· Listen both sides and without any bias. Support or focus on the problem rather than person. Take necessary steps in case there is middle ground its well and good if both parties agree. If not be honest and support the person who is correct. Ultimate goal is to be useful for overall project and company rather individual satisfaction. The approach should be fit into overall team goal."See full answer

Shen W. - "For self achievement, The product manager builds useful products for users and makes the world better. For the team, The product manager can work with the team, and leverage the team resources to make things happen, which is more impactful. For the company, Pm are usually problem solvers, help companies to solve problems and grow better "See full answer

theproductguy - "Clarifying Questions and possible responses: both audio and video goals: increase engagement time among groups/communitites and not require another platform to do group call (be one-stop for communication) region-TBD ios/android only available to users in a group to call users within the group who can intitiate these calls?- only admin? or anyone? metrics:NSM: feature engagement (C), number of calls made in a week per user (C). PM: % of people joining the call in a group"See full answer

Aymen D. - "It would have been more interesting to focus on the system design rather than the Trie DS, Interviewee could have just mentioned the Trie and passed to things more important. Interviewee should have focused on the factors on which he wants to scale the API servers, popularity of the query parts ? region may be ? A hash of many factors ? Caches should have definitely be discussed, Cache eviction policies, Cache invalidation managements... Interviewee should have mentioned which kind of API pro"See full answer

A G. - "Clarification Qs: What does "split" mean here? - split the UI and if so how (through tabs?) What counts as "media" - clarified already What is prompting us to consider this change? - any negative feedback from the users/ decrease in certain Newsfeed metrics like engagement etc/ any particular business goal? is this across or platforms eg desktop/mobile ? Is this for all regions? Mission of FB: Fb's mission is to bring people closer together by enabling them to build communiti"See full answer

San S. - "How might the system design change if it is limited specifically to a web/mobile use case?"See full answer

Bhavna S. - "Step 1: Define Objectives and Key Metrics Objectives: Understand the demand for group video calling. Assess the potential impact on user engagement. Identify technical and user experience considerations. Key Metrics: Call Frequency: Number of 1:1 calls per user. Call Duration: Average duration of 1:1 calls. Call Participants: Identify users who frequently call multiple individuals. Concurrent Calls: Instances where users are engaged in multiple 1:1 call"See full answer

R K. - "I would start with some clarifying questions: What is the goal of the 'Report ad' feature? what do you think? Are we looking at the blue app or Instagram? The ad placement can be adjusted to the both apps, so look at it has a whole Are we looking at a specific location of the report ad? like stories or feed or reels? Nope Are we looking at a specific OS? everywhere Is there some timeline? or restrictions? no Are we looking at a specific market? worldwide Thank you, I"See full answer

gdecuri - "Load Balancer, Multiple API Servers, game Service, pub-sub system, HTTP Long Polling for status updates, write-through cache. No SQL DB to store user, game, and move information."See full answer

Tony A. - "The correct question is: Build a product for celebrities to engage with their followers."See full answer

Hans - "Situation: Was given negative feedback about an aspect of my communications. The person said it made them worried because of the brevity and the format of some messages. (Their worry was that a longer negative message was coming) Task(s): Reflected on feedback about my communication style. Acknowledged the point. Assumed best intentions on the part of the person giving the feedback Saw things from the other person's point of view Action(s): In private - Apologised to the person wh"See full answer

Soodong P. - "Product and Mission To allow users to create events and host on FB pages. It can be one time or recurring. It can include FB users through feeds or referrals or can be shared out with a link. Product objective is to build strong online and offline bonding through connecting people with common interests and ensure continued engagements. Aligns with the core Meta mission. User Journey and Value + Metrics Organizers: Finds the value when the many participants share interest or"See full answer

Dheeraj D. - "Thanks Hozefa for your insights on this. I see that hozefa talks about giving used cases. It would be very helpful if there was an example provided with STAR framework."See full answer

Kiley S. - "Set Success metrics for Google Maps: Assuming we are focusing on mobile experience… Clarify the product: Overall, it is a directions app: Gets you from point a to point b Allows for several methods of transportation - car, public transit, walking, biking, rideshare After entering location, you click your transport method, and select get directions which leads you to steps to get to you location or if you are driving or walking it speaks to you giving youthe directions aloud based on sett"See full answer

Anjali P. - "Question and video tagged not same. "See full answer

Yugaank K. - "A recursive backtracking solution in python. def changeSigns(nums: List[int], S: int) -> int: res = [] n = len(nums) def backtrack(index, curr, arr): if curr == S and len(arr) == n: res.append(arr[:]) return if index >= len(nums): return for i in range(index, n): add +ve number arr.append(nums[i]) backtrack(i+1, curr + nums[i], arr) arr.pop() "See full answer