"Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman.
Clarifying questions:
Why does Meta want to build this?
A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why.
When: No fixed duration for release.
Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with.
Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"
Varun S. - "Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman.
Clarifying questions:
Why does Meta want to build this?
A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why.
When: No fixed duration for release.
Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with.
Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"See full answer
"Some clarifying questions:
Is this going to be a part of exciting Meta product or completely new one? you choose
Is there a particular sport or range of sports that the product should cater to? all sports, should be agnostic.
What is "athletes"? pros? amateurs? fitness enthusiasts? you can decide
Is there a specific problems or challenges faced by athletes does he want the product to address? feel free to make assumptions
Is there a specific goal that we want to achieve"
R K. - "Some clarifying questions:
Is this going to be a part of exciting Meta product or completely new one? you choose
Is there a particular sport or range of sports that the product should cater to? all sports, should be agnostic.
What is "athletes"? pros? amateurs? fitness enthusiasts? you can decide
Is there a specific problems or challenges faced by athletes does he want the product to address? feel free to make assumptions
Is there a specific goal that we want to achieve"See full answer
"Followed
Clarifying questions - why this product - competition - Meta's mission - product vision - user segments - prioritize and Why - pain points for prioritized segment - prioritize pain points - list solutions - tradeoff - North star - summerize
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A B. - "Followed
Clarifying questions - why this product - competition - Meta's mission - product vision - user segments - prioritize and Why - pain points for prioritized segment - prioritize pain points - list solutions - tradeoff - North star - summerize
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"Clarifying questions and assumptions:
Personalised news feed is the culmination of curated posts, events, ads , videos, etc that is unique to each user. potentially this means that no 2 feeds are the same.
I am assuming we are talking about the Facebook Blue app, since the term Newsfeed is generally associated with this app although the feed on Insta too is personalised.
Thank you for this question.
here is how i would structure my thoughts on arriving at success metrics for Personalised Ne"
Sneha S. - "Clarifying questions and assumptions:
Personalised news feed is the culmination of curated posts, events, ads , videos, etc that is unique to each user. potentially this means that no 2 feeds are the same.
I am assuming we are talking about the Facebook Blue app, since the term Newsfeed is generally associated with this app although the feed on Insta too is personalised.
Thank you for this question.
here is how i would structure my thoughts on arriving at success metrics for Personalised Ne"See full answer
"I would structure my answer in the following way:
What's the situational context?
Mission of Uber
Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders
Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast
What would feed into the decision-making?
The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"
pmpractice - "I would structure my answer in the following way:
What's the situational context?
Mission of Uber
Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders
Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast
What would feed into the decision-making?
The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"See full answer
"· Support team members to grow, people oriented, have ability to deal with underperformers, influential and motivational skills
· Can deal with multiple releases and able to manage resource crunch"
BePostive - "· Support team members to grow, people oriented, have ability to deal with underperformers, influential and motivational skills
· Can deal with multiple releases and able to manage resource crunch"See full answer
"Clarify:
Across all platforms? - Yes
Specific geographies? - No
Any specific users? Like >60 years - No
Benefits of profile picture:
User can find their friends by identifying them through profile picture.
Helps in understanding if the profile is genuine. Also establishes trust in the platform.
Users checking profiles is also a way for users to engage on the platform.
Possible decisions:
Remove profile upload feature
Make it optional
No change
Approach to make decis"
Nishant V. - "Clarify:
Across all platforms? - Yes
Specific geographies? - No
Any specific users? Like >60 years - No
Benefits of profile picture:
User can find their friends by identifying them through profile picture.
Helps in understanding if the profile is genuine. Also establishes trust in the platform.
Users checking profiles is also a way for users to engage on the platform.
Possible decisions:
Remove profile upload feature
Make it optional
No change
Approach to make decis"See full answer
"Clarifying question:
By podcast, we mean a series of digital audio generally available on the internet in the form of monologue or interview.
Do we need to integrate it with Facebook or design a separate product? --> Separate Product not related to Facebook
Mobile/web application --> Any
Constraints? --> No
Goal? --> To design a dedicated app to recommend podcasts in order to increase user satisfaction
Users:
Power Users: Who regularly listens to podcasts and keep detailed information on various"
Gunjali D. - "Clarifying question:
By podcast, we mean a series of digital audio generally available on the internet in the form of monologue or interview.
Do we need to integrate it with Facebook or design a separate product? --> Separate Product not related to Facebook
Mobile/web application --> Any
Constraints? --> No
Goal? --> To design a dedicated app to recommend podcasts in order to increase user satisfaction
Users:
Power Users: Who regularly listens to podcasts and keep detailed information on various"See full answer
"Clarifying question:
We are just interested in facebook's ad rev and not other meta products
We are looking at the rev coming per year globally
formula = (avg. ads shown per min on fb products) x (avg. time spent per user per day in mins) x (avg. rev that fb makes per view) x (DAU) x 365
assumption
all kind of ads give the same rev per view to fb
all kind of geographies give the same rev per view to fb
avg. ads shown per min -> user can scroll upto 20 posts easily in a min, lets"
Anubhav A. - "Clarifying question:
We are just interested in facebook's ad rev and not other meta products
We are looking at the rev coming per year globally
formula = (avg. ads shown per min on fb products) x (avg. time spent per user per day in mins) x (avg. rev that fb makes per view) x (DAU) x 365
assumption
all kind of ads give the same rev per view to fb
all kind of geographies give the same rev per view to fb
avg. ads shown per min -> user can scroll upto 20 posts easily in a min, lets"See full answer
"Assumptions:
It is a brand-new product and will be for US markets.
We will be making a mobile app.
The purpose of this product is to solve the problems people face when relocating to a new city. Now there are many different kinds of problems to deal with, such as house hunting, furniture buying, transiting in the city, exploring and socializing, etc.
I will be moving forward with the socializing feature where the user will be able to find attractions of the city and visit, he will"
Ankit M. - "Assumptions:
It is a brand-new product and will be for US markets.
We will be making a mobile app.
The purpose of this product is to solve the problems people face when relocating to a new city. Now there are many different kinds of problems to deal with, such as house hunting, furniture buying, transiting in the city, exploring and socializing, etc.
I will be moving forward with the socializing feature where the user will be able to find attractions of the city and visit, he will"See full answer
"Clarified on definition of hyperlocal - Defined it as a community of people in a 2-3 km radius and assumed geography as India
Talked about different type of community needs in a hyperlocal space - public services, local grocery delivery, food delivery, parcel delivery, making new friends for shared interests like playing badminton (Prioritised public services since it was underserved with respect to things like sewage cleaning, electricity outage in an area, community traffic problems, water"
KAI - "Clarified on definition of hyperlocal - Defined it as a community of people in a 2-3 km radius and assumed geography as India
Talked about different type of community needs in a hyperlocal space - public services, local grocery delivery, food delivery, parcel delivery, making new friends for shared interests like playing badminton (Prioritised public services since it was underserved with respect to things like sewage cleaning, electricity outage in an area, community traffic problems, water"See full answer
"THIS QUESTION IS FROM AMAZON
STRUCTURE OF THE ANSWER
ARTICULATE YOUR IDEA
WHY IS IT WORTH ADVOCATING
ACHIEVING THE IDEA
THE RESULTS AND IMPACT FOR THE COMPANY FROM THIS IDEA.
AND ADD THE CHERRY ON THE TOP I HAVE A PRESENTATION MADE TO PRESENT YOUR IDEAS INTO A COMPELLING WAY"
Lea M. - "THIS QUESTION IS FROM AMAZON
STRUCTURE OF THE ANSWER
ARTICULATE YOUR IDEA
WHY IS IT WORTH ADVOCATING
ACHIEVING THE IDEA
THE RESULTS AND IMPACT FOR THE COMPANY FROM THIS IDEA.
AND ADD THE CHERRY ON THE TOP I HAVE A PRESENTATION MADE TO PRESENT YOUR IDEAS INTO A COMPELLING WAY"See full answer
"We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"
Exponent - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer
"The primary objective of Instagram Stories is to share fleeting moments and engage with followers in a more casual way, through photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours.
Its also used to showcase all ongoing Instagram Live events.
There are 4 user segments
Story Viewers
Story Creators (who posted the story)
Live event creators
Live event viewers
No of stories posted per user per day -> How to nudge users to post more stories and tag their friends/location.
No of stories view"
Kiran M. - "The primary objective of Instagram Stories is to share fleeting moments and engage with followers in a more casual way, through photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours.
Its also used to showcase all ongoing Instagram Live events.
There are 4 user segments
Story Viewers
Story Creators (who posted the story)
Live event creators
Live event viewers
No of stories posted per user per day -> How to nudge users to post more stories and tag their friends/location.
No of stories view"See full answer