Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

Ben G. - "Situation - A situation where I used creative / innovative thinking to eliminate frustration with a product was while I was working on Point of Sale and Polaris for Retail Design System for Shopify. Upon seeing our vision for the future of this design system, it lacked a lot of the visual polish and necessary components that would make the product much more competitive in the market - this included having a lack of an interaction model for what is tappable vs. not tappable as well as containmen"See full answer

Samuel S. - "Clarification questions: What is the time frame we want to build this? MVP 6 months What markets and geos are we targeting? e.g. developed markets and scope it to just US and canada Are we targeting any particular meta platform ? facebook, IG, whatsapp or i can pick ? Across mobile and web platforms. Yes Alignment with Meta's mission and vision and discusison on Product dynamics itself Meta's mission to empower people to build communities and bring the wo"See full answer

Anonymous Capybara - "using a relational database isn't a good choice for this system! we need more availability here than consistency (CAP theorem)"See full answer

Vidhyadhar V. - "public class CircularBuffer { private T[] buffer; private int head; private int tail; private int size; private final int capacity; public CircularBuffer(int capacity) { this.capacity = capacity; this.buffer = (T[]) new Object[capacity]; this.head = 0; this.tail = 0; this.size = 0; } public void enqueue(T item) { if (isFull()) { throw new IllegalStateException("Buffer is full"); } buf"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: What are Discovery features on IG? My assumed answer: posts of followers you don’t already follow that you see on the Discovery tab of IG. The posts consist of video clips, IGTV posts, and pics. User can browse through endless scroll of posts, and can filter by category (e.g. sports, comedy, etc.) on the Discovery tab. Exclude IGTV and IG Shopping, which can also be accessed by Discovery tab, and just focus on Discovery of users you don’t already follow as"See full answer

Ashvini B. - "Clarifying Questions: What's the goal of this feature? I am assuming the goal is to improve the experience. 2) Are we focused on any specific brand? Tesla, Waymo? - I am assuming in general 3) Market - US 4) For the purpose of this question, I am assuming elf-driving cars are fully safe/autonomous and doesn't need any attention from the users to reach from point A to B. Revised problem statement - Design a feature for self-driving cars to improve the experience. User-segments: People who use i"See full answer

Anonymous Mongoose - "Given a Binary Tree, the task is to find its vertical traversal starting from the leftmost level to the rightmost level. If multiple nodes pass through a vertical line, they should be printed as they appear in the level order traversal of the tree. The idea is to traverse the tree using dfs and maintain a hashmap to store nodes at each horizontal distance (HD) from the root. Starting with an HD of 0 at the root, the HD is decremented for left children and incremented for right children. As we"See full answer

Pratik H. - "How would you define success for Doordash Clarify- Are we looking at the US Market? Yes Are we we looking at it from today? Yes Are looking at mobile or web? Both Has anything changed in doordash;s strategy or marketplace I should be aware of? Nothing major Lets talk a little about the misssion of doordash. It probably goes something along the lines make food delivery as easy as possible. Their core product is three sided. You have drivers on one end, customers that order food on the other and"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Measure Success of FB rooms. First I would like to clarify my understanding of the product: FB Rooms is a video call product similar to zoom in which a user can create a room and then invite people to join either with Facebook, if they are already friends or with a link or invite. Able to use filters and virtual backgrounds Now that we have aligned on the understanding of the product, I would like to think about the goals for the product. Goals: Business goals: Rooms was FB’s"See full answer

Amit T. - "Question Design a product for P2P borrowing & lending money Clarifications Is this only P2P borrowing/lending or can financial entities participate too? - P2P only Is it to borrow/lend physical cash/digital money/cryptocurrency? - digital fiat money Are we focusing on specific geography? - US What’s the goal of this product? - Retention Are there any resource constraints? - No What’s the timeline to launch MVP? - 6 months FB Mission Empower people to build commun"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Q: should this be part of FB or a standalone product? A: no hard requirements, it just has to be something that FB would launch Q: is there a specific region we should be designing for? is it ok that we focus on the US as its the current epiccenter of the pandemic? A: Yes that's fine Q: fighting covid-19 is a very broad goal, what if we translated this into decrease the spread of covid-19 - there's multiple ways we could do that but it makes it a bit more concrete. A: Yes that sounds good "See full answer

SweetTaco - "Understand Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that gives everyone access to unbiased and accurate knowledge and information. Current products: Website - people use Wikipedia to search and pull up articles written around a specific topic Integration with other products such as browsers and kindles - people highlight a word/subject and they can pull up the relevant wikipedia if it's available. Business model: It's a non-profit organization t"See full answer

Yomna H. - "Evication Strategy: LFU Access Pattern: Write Around"See full answer

Aldar M. - "/my initial thought was to make an example with program integration project that I led a few years ago Stage 1: Project Planning. The first stage of SDLC is all about “What do we want?” my approach was simply take project life cycle structure(initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closure) and elaborate on each stages did i. I lack a details and Excell skills and I should have taken SDLC structure because I fits better with JD. Stage 2: Gathering Requirements & Ana"See full answer

onering2ruleall - "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"See full answer