Meta (Facebook) Interview Questions

Bhavna S. - "Before diving into the Solution, I would ask a few clarifying questions. What is the scope of the fake news What type of fake news are we focusing on - Political, Health-related, etc Are we looking at specific examples or a general category of fake news When you say impact, what do you mean by that? Is it time spent on posts, the nature of the engagement (e.g., likes, shares, comments), and the sentiment of the comments? User Demographics: what is the demographic pr"See full answer

Anonymous Shark - "Clarify: Are we talking about traditional noise-cancelling which cancels noise for listeners or we are talking about the speaker side noise-cancellation? - Interviewer replied: Both Are we exploring to build something on top of existing hardware around Meta VR products or something in general? - Interviewer replied: up to you. High level though process (Could be detailed with more structure): Considering Meta's vision on building metaverse, where meta currently has AR/VR products li"See full answer

TurboPM - "Assumptions: Geo: US Channels: Both Mobile/Web Includes Stocks and other kinds of tradable financial instruments Product for end users and not for FB employees to trade stocks or financial Instruments Separate App or integrated within the FB Blue App? Integrated within the Blue App Constraints:None Why might this make sense for FB? Recently with the advent of free retail trading platforms like Robinhood stock trading has been democratized and common people, young and old, hav"See full answer

Sai vuppalapati M. - "At a high level, the core challenge here revolves around building an effective recommendation algorithm for news. News is an inherently diverse category, spanning various topics and catering to a wide array of user types and personas, such as adults, business professionals, general readers, or specific cohorts with unique interests. Consequently, developing a single, one-size-fits-all recommendation algorithm is not feasible. To enhance the personalization of the news recommendation algorithm,"See full answer

Anonymous Bird - "Here's my structure: Align with interviewer on understanding of the product and state key assumptions Product rationale What is the product (1-2 sentences)? Why does it exist? How does it fulfill Meta's mission? Who are the key stakeholders and users of the product? Business goal: Key Users and value User type User flow (high level) Intersection of value North Star Metric Supporting metrics for different user types Counter-metrics"See full answer

Zhi C. - "The opening of people spending a lot time on Facebook is way too long. Almost half time of the video. The analysis of Facebook business model should be very brief. People know Facebook business model. Maximize the ads display while balancing the user experience is the key. She can drive to this point much faster. Segmentation of user group feels irrelevant to the question. I would answer the question in a different way. Ads revenue is the single most revenue stream for Facebook. So we c"See full answer

Alan T. - "I want to work at Meta because of its reputation as a company that consistently pushes the boundaries of technology, particularly in areas like AI, machine learning, and immersive technologies such as AR and VR. I admire Meta's mission to bring people closer together and create meaningful connections, as well as its focus on long-term innovation, such as the development of the metaverse. As an AI engineer, I'm excited about the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that have a global impa"See full answer

Pankhuri T. - "Hi Everyone, As an aspiring product manager, I feel with the latest Ray-Ban or Orion AR glasses that provides hands-free experience to the user. So basically, with these glasses you can interact, ask it to remember where you parked and what can you make with the ingredients which are in front of you, I think an extension to it can be a very great healthcare product. Now let's imagine that this glass is storing all your eating habits, what medicines you take, with an integration to meta watches"See full answer

Yair G. - "Are we speaking of all Meta Ads products on something specific? All of them Meta is a social media and AI company that generates most of it's revenue from Ads on social media. Meta's mission is to empower people to build communities and bring the world closer together. If ads violate the community guidelines regulations that can directly hurt both Meta's mission and its revenue stream. For example ads that include hate speech are against community guidelines and also hurts Meta's mission. Ha"See full answer

EssGee - "I think i would start by asking what's driving the strategy for testing new ad formats? Possible options could be Increase monetization? Improve ad effectiveness? Any other objectives? Assuming that its both 1&2 - we want to test new ad formats to gauge if these are more effective and lead to higher monetization Ground the conversation into current scenario Instagram Reels is aa short form video platform that users use to showoff their creativity Reels is a relatively new addition to"See full answer

Vishal S. - "Product Understanding - Ads are what you see from companies as stories, posts, reels. Post are from users (connections). We have to design an experience which produces maximum engagement while generating ad revenue. Clarifying Questions - Is it specific to posts/stories/reels ? Is there an existing post to ads ratio or do we have to start from scratch? Is it specific to a device/OS? Is it specific to a region/user demographic? Assumption - Existing posts to ads ratio"See full answer

Anonymous Warbler - "ATTEMPT 2: Facebook Dating Sign up for a dating profile if you have FB account You see profiles of others who signed up It’s presented in a form browse cards Like or Not like profile Like + Like = Match = Unlocks to exchange messages Meetup + Date Facebook Dating - Helping people meet to date -> potential connections or long-term partner or marriage Users Just to date / meet new people Look for a meaningful relationship Look for marriage or partners"See full answer

Neha A. - "FB Vision Why is this problem important - bad ads can drive customer churn and pose reputational risks in terms of law suits. What is a bad ad defined as - we will exclude ad relevance. any ad that is inappropriate, harmful, and misleading. What is the user journey >> Businesses creates ads, ads are verified by FB team who will remove any bad ads, ads get published after verification, user sees the ads, reports if they dont like it, and the team verifies it again and if bad, removes it. N"See full answer

Pratik H. - "Clarify- 1) How much time do we have to do this?- 2 years 2) Is there a goal for this product?- We are looking toward engagement towards the Olympics 3) Are we building this for a global auidience or just the US- Up to you 4) Should I keep Meta's mission in mind here? Not necessarily...thinking through the Olympic committee lens Lets understand the Olympics. Its the games that are hosted once every 4 years. Its a global event that hosts many different athletes from various countries. There a"See full answer

Kanishvaran P. - "class Solution { public boolean isValid(String s) { // Time Complexity and Space complexity will be O(n) Stack stack=new Stack(); for(char c:s.toCharArray()){ if(c=='('){ stack.push(')'); } else if(c=='{'){ stack.push('}'); } else if(c=='['){ stack.push(']'); } else if(stack.pop()!=c){ return false; } } return stack.isEmpty(); } }"See full answer

Sandy L. - "Clarify Functionality: Watch is a tab in FB app where people can upload and view Videos. What's the redesign? We collapsed the reaction and comment bar so people can see more videos and spend more time watching videos. What's the objective of the redesign? To help people discover and watch more videos they'll enjoy._ Structure To decide whether or not to ship this redesign, i'd like to go over. How does the Watch Tab fit into FB's mission and what's its goal? What's the long-"See full answer

John H. - "All products and services have to sell. I would create measurements on how much time, labor, and funds went into a project and how much value it brings back to customers and company."See full answer