Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

Scott S. - " Situation Our data engineering team was tasked with developing a new real-time analytics platform for derivatives trading. To ensure the project’s success, we needed buy-in and support from various non-technical teams, including finance, compliance, and senior management. These teams needed to understand the importance of the project, the resources required, and how it would benefit the organization. Task My task was to effectively communicate the technical requirements and benefits of"See full answer

BePostive - "Learn to know why they want to switch and also make sure their understanding about the new role is in line with organization standards. Train them if they are lagging in some aspects and make sure to layout a plan for them to grow in that direction. Put them in pilot project or as shadow manager for some time if there are any opportunities in the organization. Once they are up to speed help them applying internally to the specific position."See full answer

Scott S. - " Situation In the derivatives trading domain, timely and accurate data is crucial for making informed trading decisions. Our existing data processing system was facing challenges with latency and scalability, which hindered our ability to react swiftly to market changes. To address these issues, we designed a new real-time market data processing platform. Task The task was to develop a low-latency data processing platform that could handle real-time market data ingestion, processing, an"See full answer

BePostive - "For me the answer looks very broad and general. It would be good the reply is relevant and focus good examples using STAR format. Please let me know your views."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

Scott S. - "As a Software Engineering Manager, one of the biggest mistakes I encountered early in my role involved underestimating the importance of aligning team goals with individual career aspirations and professional growth opportunities. This oversight became evident through a project that initially seemed successful but later revealed deeper issues within the team dynamics and morale. I was leading a software development team on a major project aimed at revamping a critical trading platform. The proj"See full answer

BePostive - "· Creating templates for requirement stories regarding acceptance criteria, there are lot of places where modifications are done later. Freeze them as early as possible once PR is in execution · Product managers asking random requests directly with engineers by passing leads and manager, work which is not in the sprint planning. Learned from this and gave a thought to call it out in team agreement · Follow up on Retrospective action items didn’t happen 100%"See full answer

Scott S. - "Great question! Before communicating any major change, I would ensure I have a deep understanding of the strategic shift, its rationale, and its implications. This involves meeting with senior management to gather all necessary details and preparing to address any questions or concerns from the team. To share a recent experience I had, so Last year, our senior management decided to shift our focus towards leveraging machine learning and advanced real-time analytics to enhance our trading stra"See full answer

Scott S. - "One of the most challenging moments I experienced as a Engineering Manager was with an employee who was a very talented engineer but struggled with communication and collaboration within the team. This situation not only affected his performance but also created tension among team members. To sort of elaborate on it, I had an engineer on my team, Ravi, who was extremely skilled technically and consistently delivered high-quality code. However, Ravi often worked in isolation, was reluctant to sh"See full answer

Rotem L. - "Meta Pay - What is it? Payment platform that lets people buy and send money on Facebook, IG and Instagram on platforms like FB and IG, people already find things they like and the businesses can sell directly on the platform through shops so Pay is closing the last mile and letting them also check out quickly once they’ve added their card details once. It’s making it a real one-stop shop. It also allows making more transactions directly on the platform without having to enter card deta"See full answer

Anonymous Pelican - "Just to preface - I've actually worked in the non-profit space previously, so I have some experience in this problem area. Clarifying questions: Is this within the Facebook app itself/integrations across the FoA’s ? Or is this going to be a standalone product? Assume: Charity function built within Facebook. Clarifying Question: Are we okay to constrain this to the US region? There may be tax implications outside of the US we aren’t strongly familiar with and so easier to focus on U"See full answer

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

Mark H. - "Clarification: workplace is a communication messaging tool for employee to send and receive messages. Why: meta's mission current landscape market trends meta's unique value strength & weakness Workplace Mission: build a communication tool for employees to better collaborate and engage with each other Goal: focus on engagement, not revenue Product ecosystem: Meta Company sourcing department IT department User: sender/receiver #of people log in #of people"See full answer

Anonymous I. - "Great question, first some clarifying questions: I assume that we're talking about meta disrupting the travel industry? Or generally When we say travel industry, this could include modes of transportation, scheduling transportation, what to do when you're there etc.? Are we focused on business travel? Leisure travel? I'm going to assume for the sake of scoping down that we're going to be focused on Leisure travel because business does not have as much pain, and on the flip-side o"See full answer

Hari S. - "Clarifying questions: Is this a standalone product or a Meta integrated product? Which region is this for? US or another region or global? Is this for a county run library or a more informal group community library? Assumptions: It's a meta integrated product US based system group run community library Let's see if a lending library fits into Meta's company mission to build community and bring people closer together. Yes, a lending library does build community by helping peop"See full answer

P K. - "Assuming this is meant to be a standalone product. Its a standalone app. Goal: Simplify the shopping experience in store for a user. Success would be defined in terms of app usage as a proxy for user satisfaction. I want to think about the a given user segment, their pain points, ways to improve their pain and a way to evaluate those solutions. Broadly user personas associated with grocery shopping are - stores and customers. For the purpose of this interview I want to focus on customer se"See full answer

Baviya M. - "By providing some new technologies and improve the products"See full answer

Anonymous Minnow - "Goals (Prod & Safeway) User Groups: Shoppers: College Students Professionals Families Elderly New customers (not already in the store) I selected elderly due to trends on the aging population being a significant population in the next decade and it being a group we have the most opportunity as Safeway to support. Pain Points **Most likely these customers are buying things in person or someone is purchasing items for them and gettin"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - " To start, I'm going to make sure I understand the product correctly and also define what specific business metric we're trying to improve. Second, I will focus on defining the target user for which we want to improve the product and brainstorm what additional user problems we could solve. And third, I will generate solutions for these problems, prioritize them, and make a recommendation." First I want to understand if this product will aim to help me find the pet I want, or help me discover wh"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "C : Okay. So I would want to start with knowing what is the product for which we have to build a recommendation system. I : This is a photo sharing product. C : Okay. So is this something on the lines of Instagram? I : Yes C : Okay. And are we a new product co or we have some current product built already? I : You can assume yourself. C : Okay. Is there any demography or country we are targeting? I : No, this is a global product C : Okay. So, the biggest goal of any product recommendation system"See full answer