Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

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

Balaji G. - "My Answer. Please let me know your feedback. I have led many projects throughout my career. So, whenever I lead the project, I first try to clarify the goals and values delivered. For example, I was in charge of Data Analytics projects at my employment at a Startup. The team’s goal was launching the MVP. First, I discussed with the CEO to define the clear goal and scope for each of the projects. Next, I identified all the key stakeholders and received their inputs on the project's different a"See full answer

Manaswini D. - "user surveys and interviews: Ask users how well the reactions reflect their feelings. sentiment analysis : Analyze comment sentiment to see if it aligns with reactions. Machine learning classification model: Train models to predict user emotion from post content and compare with selected reactions."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

I C. - "Product Description To start out with, I would like to make sure I understand how the product functions. To my understanding, the fundraising product is for: Individuals and non-profits to set-up fundraisers to receive donations either to support a specific cause / initiative or to ask for help on a big expense like a medical bill Individuals within these networks are able to donate At times, Facebook will charge a small fee to help facilitate the money transfers **Facebook Mis"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

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

Sri A. - "Mission: to help users buy and sell products from groups. If we think about the value here, users want to join groups that sell/buy products of interest (young moms or vinyl), or location of interest, or trust, or some other factor - either from other users or SMBs. User Actions: create groups, join groups, active in groups - make posts to sell or show interest in buying (like, commenting, sharing or ideally transacting) deeper engagement - sharing , saving , searching more based on wh"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

Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on building the product on a specific Meta platform (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), or is this a standalone effort? Is the product digital or physical? Are we targeting internal (employees) or external (customers) users? Are there any specific constraints like funding, resourcing, or geography? 1. Narrowing Down the Problem Awareness and Education: Create tools to increase understanding of climate change and its effects. -"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "To make sure we are on the same page, this is a feature in the current FB app that would make it easier for people to volunteer? Or more broadly, the feature would aim to expand the base of volunteers. To start I want to dive deeper on the objective of the feature. Then we can look at possible users, pick a segment and outline their needs, then look at some solutions. We can then prioritize and see how we might roll something like this out. If I look at FB mission of building community and brin"See full answer

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

Ritaban M. - " Brute Force Two Pointer Solution: from typing import List def two_sum(nums, target): for i in range(len(nums)): for j in range(i+1, len(nums)): if nums[i]+nums[j]==target: return [i,j] return [] debug your code below print(two_sum([2, 7, 11, 15], 9)) `"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