Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

Amy M. - "Before we head into this - let's redefine this question to identify some objectives and key results: re-Design FB security privacy intimacy a few questions I want to clarify are: Is this for desktop, mobi web, or apps? Apps Is this for US only? Yes May I assume some resources available for me? Such as Designers, Data Scientists, Developers? Sure ----- Okay let me think about this for a min ---- I'd like to start off by: Thinking about th"See full answer

Srihitha J. - "my answer: void* memcpy(void* dest, const void* src, size_t n) { unsigned char* uDest = static_cast(dest); const unsigned char* ucSrc = static_cast(src); for(size_t i= 0; i(dest); const unsigned c"See full answer

SG - "Clarifying questions - Alexa HW, Alexa SW, Alexa particular feature? Assumption - Pick any. Picking HW due to relevance with my background. Any particular pain point that we are trying to address, or any specific goal that I should be aware of? Assumption - None. Mine to pick. Goal for Amazon is to be the most customer centric company. To extend the same vision - With Alexa HW our goal is to provide the best customer experience possible. **Restating problem state"See full answer

Aimable - "Clarifying question: Is there a goal that we have in mind? Fb mission: empower people to create community and bring the world closer together IG shops as I understand are the marketplace on IG, where users can view items listed for sale by creators/businesses and also search for specific items or categories. Users can actually buy through shops instead of getting navigated to the original business website. IG shop goals: Businesses continue to face the challenges of selling onli"See full answer

S G. - "If it's a product end to end, then there's a lot to say. If it's just a feature on top of a product then I will focus on the complexity and how I break complex tasks into small milestones to partner with XFN teams to nail it. Focus on situation, task, actions and results"See full answer

Mahaboob P. - "int[] sqSorted(int[] nums) { int i = 0, j = nums.length-1; int k = nums.length-1; int[] sqs = new int[nums.length]; while(i n1) { sqs[k--] = n2; j--; } else { sqs[k--] = n1; i++; } } for(int n: sqs) System.out.println(n); return sqs; }"See full answer

A B. - "Followed Clarifying questions - why this product - competition - Meta's mission - product vision - user segments - prioritize and Why - pain points for prioritized segment - prioritize pain points - list solutions - tradeoff - North star - summerize "See full answer

Ram - "Clarification: Are we talking about creating an experience or product as part of another product or from 0→1? Encourage - the goal is to increase % of citizen vote. Or want to vote? Vote - are we talking about national elections? Am I a product manager for the government? Any focus on geo, segment, or platform? Context - why do we want to do it? Did we experience a recent decline? Could it be hardware or software only? Digital or physical? Structure: Context "See full answer

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

Varun S. - "Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman. Clarifying questions: Why does Meta want to build this? A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why. When: No fixed duration for release. Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with. Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"See full answer

Simran M. - "Clarifications: Netflix is a streaming service and homepage serves the first entry point after a user has been logged in to their respective profile. Homepage helps users find a relevant content for them to watch, among other features like "Continue watching" or games. Mission: Netflix's mission is to entertain the world. Goal: As a PM of homepage, the goal of the feature is to let the users find relevant content of their interest. This feature ties to the mission in a way that lets the user"See full answer

Ben G. - "A more senior answer -> influencing stakeholders Defining who stakeholders will be and roles and responsibilities early one Identifying timelines and roadmapping Identifying key business needs and how they related to core product Identifying how the project will be successful (KPIs) Identify business, user and product goals Speaking your stakeholder’s language, build empathy by discovery and understanding their motivations and make them a part of the co-creation process (ie calc"See full answer

Anand K. - "Clarify: First, is there a budget or timeline I should be aware of? This will allow me to understand if we should build an MVP version of X product, or if we have the freedom to make it a bit more layered/complex. No budget/timeline Next, I want to define child care: we can be talking about after-school day care many private and public schools provide. We can also be talking about child care businesses that will look after children during business hours. There are some education"See full answer

Sayee M. - "talked about a time when customer is trying to go to cloud for first time and championing the effort.. it is strategic and also a risk because outside of the OEM, no one we know had implemented this product architecture on the cloud.. used first [principles, did a crawl, walk jog approach and implemented it. Risk because of lack of reference architecture, clodu tech was new to me . career making/breaking project for customer. result : project was successful. presented story in a conference."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

Michael B. - "Problem: Given a modified binary tree, where each node also has a pointer to it's parent, find the first common ancestor of two nodes. Answer: As it happens, the structure that we're looking at is actually a linked list (one pointer up), so the problem is identical to trying to find if two linked lists share a common node. How this works is by stacking the two chains of nodes together so they're the same length. chain1 = node1 chain2= node2 while True: chain1 = chain1.next chain2=chain"See full answer

Nick L. - "when we are discussing about some issues, subjects or problem . we should consider all of the possibility cases which envolved inside the scenario.all of persons has own atitudes . challenging has a this benefite to see the problems and solves on other ways."See full answer

Amparo L. - "Hard worker, positive attitude and arrives ready to work with no emotional issues."See full answer