Meta (Facebook) Behavioral Interview Questions

Kai W. - "A high level framework Clarifications: Reactions already exist in Instagram? Any specific region or user group we try to target for the launch? ... Product description: IG is ... Reactions are Emoji alike icons users can use to reply to posts/photos/comments FB's mission: Help people stay connected and build communities IG's mission/goal: Allow users to capture world's moments and share with friends Reactions Goal: To provide users an easier way to react to the content and to bet"See full answer

Push S. - "STAR story weaved around the project 0 to 1 execution with all the technical tradeoffs, issues, and success metrics involved."See full answer

Scott S. - "As a Software Engineering Manager, one of the biggest mistakes I encountered early in my role involved underestimating the importance of aligning team goals with individual career aspirations and professional growth opportunities. This oversight became evident through a project that initially seemed successful but later revealed deeper issues within the team dynamics and morale. I was leading a software development team on a major project aimed at revamping a critical trading platform. The proj"See full answer

Scott S. - "Great question! Before communicating any major change, I would ensure I have a deep understanding of the strategic shift, its rationale, and its implications. This involves meeting with senior management to gather all necessary details and preparing to address any questions or concerns from the team. To share a recent experience I had, so Last year, our senior management decided to shift our focus towards leveraging machine learning and advanced real-time analytics to enhance our trading stra"See full answer

Nid P. - "I explained the story of trying to help the engineer to improve the performance and after it is failed, the steps I have taken to move the eng to PIP."See full answer

Scott S. - " A couple of years ago, we were working on a project to integrate a new third-party data feed into our existing data processing pipeline. This data feed was critical for enhancing our trading algorithms with more comprehensive market data. Given the tight timeline and high stakes, I decided to push for a rapid implementation. In my eagerness to meet the deadline, I underestimated the complexity of integrating this new data feed. I did not allocate sufficient time for thorough testing and valida"See full answer

Shuchi A. - "A few months ago I joined a micro-services platform engineering team as their manager, at that time my team was struggling to deliver towards an upcoming production deadline for a customer facing product. Production date had been moved 5 times already and there were about 40% of product features which were remaining to be tested and signed off to move to production . I was made responsible to deliver the release of this product within the deadline and turnaround the software delivery throughput."See full answer

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

Scott S. - " Project Overview: Real-Time Risk Management System Objective The goal was to develop a real-time risk management system capable of processing and analyzing large volumes of trading data to provide near-instantaneous risk assessments. This system was crucial for enabling traders to make informed decisions while managing their exposure to various market risks in real-time. Complexity Factors 1. \\Data Volume and Velocity\\ \\High Throughput:\\ The system needed to ha"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

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

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

Chantal C. - "Understand gaps team by interviewing on 1:1, reading past performance reviews and talking to old managers/cross functional Identify Goals and use the SMART framework to set those goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, relevant, time related) Share with team and make sure they understand them. Clarify questions if needed. Explain WHY these goals matter. Tie to company goals/mission/culture. Put together an action plan TOGETHER- give often feedback: "pinches no punches"See full answer

Graig - "Yes to peer manager from stackholder team the problem was every time she wanted say something she used to have three way connect with me and my manager"See full answer

Rishi P. - "Facebook's mission is to bring people closer. And sports is common language connecting people across the world. The joy of enjoying watching sports is with friends who also support the same team, cheer for them and trade facts about them. The product I would build is a live interactive sports app that a group of friends, though they are apart physically, can join into, chat and share happiness. The interactive sports app will stream live sports and allow users to create a community or group"See full answer

Gomathi S. - "I product manage customer care - while I belong to the ecommerce platform team. customer care is not a direct contributor for revenue and the feedback i received during my career progression was unless i contribute to revenue i cannot be on promotion track. this is difficult feedback to act on as its not by job responsibility. worked with my manager on 2 fronts - 1) create a succession plan so i can take on additional responsibility that contributes to revenue and 2) create a plan on how care ca"See full answer

Ash I. - "Follow STAR Example: In my most recent role at x, we've been working every quarter to set our quarterly goals or even decide for the year but given in 2022 we've been through a great resignation phase there was a high attrition because of which we have overloaded engineering teams. During last quarterly planning, I started to question with my manager about giving a focus to our engineering, so we complete one thing absolutely fine which is more impactful for our customers and add immediate val"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