Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

Hustle - "What does Netflix do? Netflix is a global entertainment company that produces and streams movies, TV shows, and documentaries. In recent years, it has also expanded into games and short-form content to increase engagement and strengthen its ecosystem. Why introduce podcasts? Netflix’s mission is to entertain the world. Podcasts offer a new, low-effort way for users to engage with Netflix’s stories and creators, especially during non-screen moments like commuting, exercising, or cooking. In"See full answer

Bik D. - "Clarification: Explain the product - Facebook marketplace is a platform that helps connect buyers with sellers, usually to purchase used products but not limited to the same How do you define improve - Improve discovery and engagement on the platform Geography - India Why would Meta want to invest here ? Commerce is a growing space, and can help monetized beyond ads Leverage social graph to seek user feedback on products / sellers Competitors - OLX, E-c"See full answer

Raj S. - "ads vsd dsa. How would you improve Facebook Groups given the goal of increasing the feeling of community?"See full answer

Sandeep Y. - "Functional requirement's: partial search while searching for users, products any keywords in the search. additional keywords in the filter Black listed words in the search. Non functional requirements: low latency, search through 2 Billion records recent search should be cached. Design: high reads, we should have caching enabled over the primary db storages. caching cluster can be added when the search load increases. read ahead. - check in cache (periodic cache refresh), lfu, lru "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

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

Vineet M. - "The distribution of daily minutes spent on Facebook per user is heavily right-skewed with a long tail. Most users spend a short amount of time while a smaller segment of heavy users push up the average with 2–3+ hours daily."See full answer

Shubham A. - "I was working in a Silicon Validation group and the roadmap for all validation strategy was defined, But the problem with that was it was as with the roadmap given, the quality would have compromised and hence, I raised a concern regarding the quality of the product. Initially the team members were not convinced, I borrowed a week's time with them and scheduled another meeting and brought up all the data(high level) which we should be covering during the validation timeframe. Also added tentati"See full answer

Ankita G. - "Merge Sort"See full answer

R K. - "Assumptions and clarifying Questions 1 - This will be a feature within the existing FB App and would utilize existing features - YES 2 - What is the goal of this new feature - User acquisition & increase engagement 3 -Is this feature around playing sports or watching sports - Playing 4 - Any specific geography to target - US 5 - Both mobile and desktop platforms - YES 6 - Any specific demographic to target - You choose 7 - Any constraints around go to market - 6 months 8 - Any other"See full answer

nikilukman - "Clarifying questions #1: What does "investment" mean? #2: Verification badge already exists or not? #3: A verification badge is a special symbol (like a checkmark), usually displayed next to the username to identify/verify that an account with this badge is an authentic public figure or brand. It is NOT a way for Instagram to endorse the "importance" of verified accounts. Is this accurate? Anything else I should know of as a PM regarding the definition? **Assumption: Verification badge alre"See full answer

Garrett M. - "Do they ask these kinds of rapid fire questions?"See full answer

Himanshu V. - "Video engagement: time spent, frequency, recency Video completion rate Time spent on Facebook vs Time spent on watching FB videos Video recommendation: Switching from 1st to 2nd and so on "See full answer

Guilherme F. - "A much better solution than the one in the article, below: It looks like the ones writing articles here in Javascript do not understand the time/space complexity of javascript methods. shift, splice, sort, etc... In the solution article you have a shift and a sort being done inside a while, that is, the multiplication of Ns. My solution, below, iterates through the list once and then sorts it, separately. It´s O(N+Log(N)) class ListNode { constructor(val = 0, next = null) { th"See full answer

kkkt - "Me: First let's clarify the user journey of the Facebook dating app Interviewer: Me: Do we know how success is defined in this context? Interviewer: Please figure that out yourself Me: Ok let's first discuss the mission of Facebook and how Facebook dating app is part of that. Then lets brainstorm what the goals would be for Facebook Dating. That help us determine the user behavior and metrics we can create. Finally let's fi"See full answer