"Clarifying questions
Target geography: USA, all urban areas
Form factor: Mobile app, supported on iOS and Android
Items to be borrowed: simple appliances like toaster, FMCG products, etc.
Target market
USA has a population of millions of people
People generally need to frequently borrow household items from neighbours in case of emergency (or even otherwise)
Internal company assessment
Meta's mission is to create communities that help each other. This problem ties in well with t"
Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions
Target geography: USA, all urban areas
Form factor: Mobile app, supported on iOS and Android
Items to be borrowed: simple appliances like toaster, FMCG products, etc.
Target market
USA has a population of millions of people
People generally need to frequently borrow household items from neighbours in case of emergency (or even otherwise)
Internal company assessment
Meta's mission is to create communities that help each other. This problem ties in well with t"See full answer
"This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success:
Ask clarifying questions
Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points
State the goal and use cases
List current solutions
Improvements / net new solutions
Evaluate and select solutions
Measure Success
Summarize
Ask clarifying questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up with the best solution right away — it's about bein"
Exponent - "This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success:
Ask clarifying questions
Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points
State the goal and use cases
List current solutions
Improvements / net new solutions
Evaluate and select solutions
Measure Success
Summarize
Ask clarifying questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up with the best solution right away — it's about bein"See full answer
"This is a Measure Success question. These questions are asked to gauge your familiarity with common metrics such as DAUs and MAUs, A/B testing, and ability to map user behaviors and flows to impactful metrics. A great PM will also be able to deeply understand when metrics sometimes fail (e.g. blind spots). Knowing metrics closely is also crucial to demonstrating the impact of a project, whether it's after launching or the ongoing impact.
Let's follow the Measure Success formula to tackle"
Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question. These questions are asked to gauge your familiarity with common metrics such as DAUs and MAUs, A/B testing, and ability to map user behaviors and flows to impactful metrics. A great PM will also be able to deeply understand when metrics sometimes fail (e.g. blind spots). Knowing metrics closely is also crucial to demonstrating the impact of a project, whether it's after launching or the ongoing impact.
Let's follow the Measure Success formula to tackle"See full answer
"Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was:
Meta Mission
Audiences
Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs)
Brainstorm solutions
Prioritize solutions
MVP - Measure of success
Risks and tradeoffs
The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"
Brody C. - "Honestly, I was a bit all over the place with this one. My structure was:
Meta Mission
Audiences
Thinking about journeys and pain points (TAM + Unmet Needs)
Brainstorm solutions
Prioritize solutions
MVP - Measure of success
Risks and tradeoffs
The interviewer kept trying to derail the conversation. I chose Group Volunteers (a group of people who want to volunteer together) as the audience, and in hindsight it was a poor choice. Because I chose that over individuals, I couldn't narrow down"See full answer
"Clarifying questions
Scope this down to borrowing and lending within US
Scope this down to just money and not other assets (crypto, gold etc.)
Scope this down to Facebook/Instagram app and not website etc.
Is this peer to peer lending? Or lending from financial institutions etc.? (Scope to peer to peer lending as that connects more with the mission). Lending for small business needs, etc. are scoped out for simplicity
**Mission Statement and how it is connected to this product ide"
Bhargava Y. - "Clarifying questions
Scope this down to borrowing and lending within US
Scope this down to just money and not other assets (crypto, gold etc.)
Scope this down to Facebook/Instagram app and not website etc.
Is this peer to peer lending? Or lending from financial institutions etc.? (Scope to peer to peer lending as that connects more with the mission). Lending for small business needs, etc. are scoped out for simplicity
**Mission Statement and how it is connected to this product ide"See full answer
"I would analise it in some macro and micro aspects and then evaluate those, and think abou an release strategy.
First considering the macro aspects that are:
what is the main business goal and is the product addressing it?
what is the user value and how the product is working towards this?
And by last, what is the success metric, and how likely the product as it is, is in the way of accomplish it?
Then, if those macro aspects are on track, I would go for a second round of analysis, to ev"
Michelle B. - "I would analise it in some macro and micro aspects and then evaluate those, and think abou an release strategy.
First considering the macro aspects that are:
what is the main business goal and is the product addressing it?
what is the user value and how the product is working towards this?
And by last, what is the success metric, and how likely the product as it is, is in the way of accomplish it?
Then, if those macro aspects are on track, I would go for a second round of analysis, to ev"See full answer
"This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical change rather than one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature
**Apply a UX flow to drive an"
Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical change rather than one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula:
Ask clarifying questions
State the goal of the feature
**Apply a UX flow to drive an"See full answer
"This is a Diagnosis Question. The goal of Diagnosis questions is to test whether the interviewee is organized and logical in their product approach. It also tests whether the PM is exhaustive in causes for decreases and whether they provides realistic solutions to the problem.
Let's follow the Diagnosis Question formula:
Ask clarifying questions
Propose high level reasons for a drop
Gather context (TROPIC)
Establish a theory of probable cause
Test theories
"
Exponent - "This is a Diagnosis Question. The goal of Diagnosis questions is to test whether the interviewee is organized and logical in their product approach. It also tests whether the PM is exhaustive in causes for decreases and whether they provides realistic solutions to the problem.
Let's follow the Diagnosis Question formula:
Ask clarifying questions
Propose high level reasons for a drop
Gather context (TROPIC)
Establish a theory of probable cause
Test theories
"See full answer