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Meta System Design Interview Questions

Review this list of 79 Meta System Design interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "Start your stream Use the Post tab to: Choose where to post your live broadcast. Write a description. Select a camera, mic and screen (if screen sharing). Add a title for your live broadcast (optional). Select the primary language of the stream. ... Once everything is set, select Go Live."

    Abdurhman M. - "Start your stream Use the Post tab to: Choose where to post your live broadcast. Write a description. Select a camera, mic and screen (if screen sharing). Add a title for your live broadcast (optional). Select the primary language of the stream. ... Once everything is set, select Go Live."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    System Design
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    Engineering Manager
    System Design
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    "Assumptions: This is an entirely new app and not part of FB Clarification questions: Q: What type of doctors are they looking for? It seems like an app would be for a more generalist doctor to establish relationship and not some type of emergency situation A: Yes Q: When we say looking for doctors whats the scope of this? Should we include making the actual appointment, does this happen on platform? A: Yes, initial appointment Ok thanks based on that I think we have enough to get started. "

    Anonymous Hummingbird - "Assumptions: This is an entirely new app and not part of FB Clarification questions: Q: What type of doctors are they looking for? It seems like an app would be for a more generalist doctor to establish relationship and not some type of emergency situation A: Yes Q: When we say looking for doctors whats the scope of this? Should we include making the actual appointment, does this happen on platform? A: Yes, initial appointment Ok thanks based on that I think we have enough to get started. "See full answer

    Product Manager
    System Design
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  • Technical Program Manager
    System Design
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
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    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
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    "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 "

    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

    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
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    "Do they ask these kinds of rapid fire questions?"

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

    Software Engineer
    System Design
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    Engineering Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    Video answer for 'Design an API for searching a folder.'
    Software Engineer
    System Design
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    "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"

    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

    System Design
    Product Design
  • Technical Program Manager
    System Design
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    Technical Program Manager
    System Design
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
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    Develop games G. - "asdsad"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
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    "Created a solution for remote online learning app on the lines of coursera and also made a option for live streaming classes . Uni admin creates uni account, courses, adds instructors; instructors can create content , give classes ; student searches, enrols, consumes content. Used micro services architecture with APIs for all functions, RDBMS, NoSQL , indexed with redis and elastic."

    Sneha D. - "Created a solution for remote online learning app on the lines of coursera and also made a option for live streaming classes . Uni admin creates uni account, courses, adds instructors; instructors can create content , give classes ; student searches, enrols, consumes content. Used micro services architecture with APIs for all functions, RDBMS, NoSQL , indexed with redis and elastic."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    System Design
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  • "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"

    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

    Technical Program Manager
    System Design
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "Clarifying Questions: There are several different types of therapists, do you have a particular therapist in mind? Like Mental health, physical health, food and nutrition etc? Reply: You can decide And do we know what country are we building this product, since that will help me narrow down the scope of the product? Reply: USA Approach: Define the product vision and the goal that we want to achieve Target Audience is for this particular product What problems do these user currently"

    Darshak S. - "Clarifying Questions: There are several different types of therapists, do you have a particular therapist in mind? Like Mental health, physical health, food and nutrition etc? Reply: You can decide And do we know what country are we building this product, since that will help me narrow down the scope of the product? Reply: USA Approach: Define the product vision and the goal that we want to achieve Target Audience is for this particular product What problems do these user currently"See full answer

    Product Manager
    System Design
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