Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

KAI - "Clarified on definition of hyperlocal - Defined it as a community of people in a 2-3 km radius and assumed geography as India Talked about different type of community needs in a hyperlocal space - public services, local grocery delivery, food delivery, parcel delivery, making new friends for shared interests like playing badminton (Prioritised public services since it was underserved with respect to things like sewage cleaning, electricity outage in an area, community traffic problems, water"See full answer

Sayee M. - "depending on project phase, apply various methodologies. scrum for app dev, waterfall for data migration, Testing (TDD for dev, FUT FiT for manual, UAT) , OCM has it own methodology ."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 - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions: Ask Clarifying Questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Identify current solutions Brainstorm new solutions Evaluate solutions Measure success Summarize We'll go through each of these step by step. Ask Clarifying Questions The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer

Mahesh M. - "Clarification questions Events product - Is that events tools in FB where people can create events and invite people to participate OR a section in FB for specific local/country events so that people can go in and view what others are talking about a specific event and what's going on in local neighborhood. ie think of a section in FB for halloween. People can visit events page for halloween and see where local parties are happening, promotions etc. FB Algorithm will auto curate event spec"See full answer

Neha A. - "What is the goal of FB as a company, how does marketplace help. Who are the different users (Sellers and buyers. Also mention advertisers). Sellers can be artists or small/ home business owners. they also also be infrequent sellers who come to FB marketplace when they are moving cities or moving to a new location. Buyers can be low and high engagement. We will focus on sellers - if more sellers come on the platform, it will attract buyers, generate sales, and spin the flywheel. Also, if a sel"See full answer

BePostive - "· Yes I had too, list our all the options you provided for their growth (1:1 talks, training program, pairing with SME's on domain and enrolling tech courses based on candidate weak areas) and how it didn’t help. Didn’t show progress in PIP program Performance Improvement Program."See full answer

Anonymous Dove - "Improving the parking experience as a Google Maps PM is a challenging and interesting task that requires understanding the user needs, pain points, and goals. Here are some of my ideas for how to improve the parking experience on Google Maps: Provide real-time parking availability and prices: One of the main challenges for drivers is finding a parking spot that is available, convenient, and affordable. Google Maps could use data from various sources, such as sensors, cameras, or crowdsourc"See full answer

Karthik M. - "Structure Why should we build this? + market, company, product, trends Users Painpoints Solutions Summary Clarify company - 0 to 1 Why should build this Market factors Size and opportunity (tam) sizeable market - billions of dollars in TAM Competitors (1) governments (2) parkmobile (3) vendors for each parking lot (parking structures / lots, man people) Strengths Parkmobile - available anywh"See full answer

Namrata L. - "Clarifying questions What do you mean by app for gardening? E-commerce kind of app for buying selling or tutorial or something else? Up to me. What is the goal of this app? Getting users and increasing engagement Who are we? startup What is the time frame we are looking at for this? No constraints Where are we looking to implement this? Start with India. User segments Type: Commercial, Personal Plant Parent: New, medium, Old Profession: Student, Working Professional, Stay"See full answer

BePostive - "· I set 1:1 expectation prior to our meet, mostly avoid project related topics. Don’t make this meeting as one of the project update meets. · Understand their strengths, weakness, ask questions about what’s their goals and future plans · Support areas technically, domain knowledge, talks in larger audience etc., based on their plans"See full answer

Riku H. - "My favorite Meta/Facebook product is Marketplaces and here are my reasons: Mission and Goal - The product's goal is to connect buyers and sellers locally, and this aligns with the connecting the world aspect of Meta's mission. Hence, the motivation there is directly in line with company's mission. Let's talk about the users and the journeys of the product as well: As a buyer: Relatively simple to use interface - find what you want in a few phrases and results near your profile location wil"See full answer

Tiago R. - "class TrieNode { constructor() { this.children = {}; this.isEndOfWord = false; } } class Trie { constructor() { this.root = new TrieNode(); } insert(word) { let node = this.root; for (const char of word) { if (!node.children[char]) { node.children[char] = new TrieNode(); } node = node.children[char]; } node.isEndOfWord = true; } search(word) { l"See full answer

Ishan M. - "Ask Clarifying Questions : A Podcast app is an app where artists/creators can upload their voice content and users are able to consume it. Is my understanding correct ? Yes Are we building this specifically for ios or android or web ? Consider ios and Android for now. Are we building the podcast app for a particular region like India ? Consider it a global launch What is the timeline that we are looking at? 6 months approximately Is it going to be an independent app or are we loo"See full answer

Nilanjan D. - "I think we can analyse the data that's collected especially the users who are requesting it.if we find that there are set of users who regularly use this service then we may cache the data for those users to speed up processing and better the experience. The fresh data (which will be a delta on the cached data can only be calculated) and the stale data can be left out thereby updating the cache"See full answer

Bhavana J. - "First let me try to understand the metric: when you say traffic to facebook marketplaces, you mean that number of people clicking on the marketplace tab or landing on the marketplace section has reduced. Am I right? Ok, here's my approach: I will first try to narrow down the scope of the problem by understanding what the details associated with the drop. Then I will try to hypothesize on what all could have caused it. Finally I will try to propose a solution basis the findings. Understanding th"See full answer

Mark - "Clarification Am I the PM for overall Xbox or certain part of the Xbox team? Interview (I): let's assume you own the overall Xbox product Are there particular user segments that the MSFT Gaming division is trying to focus on as their strategy? I: nothing in particular, why don't you tell me where we should focus? What are some challenges that Xbox have been facing? (ie revenue from xbox hardware purchase? xbox live subscription purchase? engagement?) I: nothing in pa"See full answer

Anonymous Porcupine - "https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-local-minima-array/ I coded O(N) but after that gave a binary approach aswell. After that he also gave a varient of this problem in which, local minima means that the number is strictly less than its adjacent (we cannot do binary search there sample test case [1,1,1,1,1,1,0,1] or [1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1] using mid we cannot determine if the minima is on left or right). we have to do a linear search or find recursively."See full answer