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  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    11 answers
    +8

    "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"

    Adam M. - "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    2 answers
    Video answer for 'How do you manage your team's performance?'

    "Thanks Hozefa for your insights on this. I see that hozefa talks about giving used cases. It would be very helpful if there was an example provided with STAR framework."

    Dheeraj D. - "Thanks Hozefa for your insights on this. I see that hozefa talks about giving used cases. It would be very helpful if there was an example provided with STAR framework."See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Product Manager
    Analytical
  • +2

    "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(); } }"

    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

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +2 more
  • "Clarifying questions What is Facebook Events How does this work Is it only desktop based or app based as well Why Meta built it Core idea/tenet for Facebook is to have user engagement & to build everything around it. While people continue to interact with Facebook and create content on it, to increase the duration of engagement, having capability to host virtual events ensures community participation and making Facebook go beyond status and photo updates and let people coordinate"

    Mohammad M. - "Clarifying questions What is Facebook Events How does this work Is it only desktop based or app based as well Why Meta built it Core idea/tenet for Facebook is to have user engagement & to build everything around it. While people continue to interact with Facebook and create content on it, to increase the duration of engagement, having capability to host virtual events ensures community participation and making Facebook go beyond status and photo updates and let people coordinate"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +1 more
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  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    2 answers

    "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    3 answers

    "Scoped out problem constraints - how much data to download, how many computers, and how much time, how you can be detected (decentralized load). Designed a web crawler."

    Faraz A. - "Scoped out problem constraints - how much data to download, how many computers, and how much time, how you can be detected (decentralized load). Designed a web crawler."See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    6 answers
    +3

    "You're the PM for all of Instagram Stories. What is your North Star metric? Meta's Mission: Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. IG's Mission: To capture and share the world's moments User Types Marketplace / 2-sided ecosystem Creators and the Consumers Metric Categories Adoption Engagement Retention [not pictured]: create a table with 2 columns: Creators and Consumers and 3 rows: Adoption, Engagement, Retention. Talked through and priori"

    Daniel L. - "You're the PM for all of Instagram Stories. What is your North Star metric? Meta's Mission: Give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. IG's Mission: To capture and share the world's moments User Types Marketplace / 2-sided ecosystem Creators and the Consumers Metric Categories Adoption Engagement Retention [not pictured]: create a table with 2 columns: Creators and Consumers and 3 rows: Adoption, Engagement, Retention. Talked through and priori"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    8 answers
    Video answer for 'Design the system architecture for WhatsApp.'
    +5

    "Excellent job Roshan, really liked the explanation. Which software were you using to explain the system design diagrams?"

    Krishnan S. - "Excellent job Roshan, really liked the explanation. Which software were you using to explain the system design diagrams?"See full answer

    System Design
    Technical
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    1 answer

    "Of course! Let me outline a general approach and ask questions along the way to see if any one path makes more sense to follow. On my general approach: I think it's important to start with a strategic goal or purpose the museum is trying to accomplish with this product. That way we have a north star. From there I'll identify a couple user types we could solve for. Once aligned, I can drill down to potential pain points and solutions of different magnitude. How does that agenda sound? For our"

    Irene C. - "Of course! Let me outline a general approach and ask questions along the way to see if any one path makes more sense to follow. On my general approach: I think it's important to start with a strategic goal or purpose the museum is trying to accomplish with this product. That way we have a north star. From there I'll identify a couple user types we could solve for. Once aligned, I can drill down to potential pain points and solutions of different magnitude. How does that agenda sound? For our"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    69 answers
    Video answer for 'Move all zeros to the end of an array.'
    +64

    "Initialize left pointer: Set a left pointer left to 0. Iterate through the array: Iterate through the array from left to right. If the current element is not 0, swap it with the element at the left pointer and increment left. Time complexity: O(n). The loop iterates through the entire array once, making it linear time. Space complexity: O(1). The algorithm operates in-place, modifying the input array directly without using additional data structures. "

    Avon T. - "Initialize left pointer: Set a left pointer left to 0. Iterate through the array: Iterate through the array from left to right. If the current element is not 0, swap it with the element at the left pointer and increment left. Time complexity: O(n). The loop iterates through the entire array once, making it linear time. Space complexity: O(1). The algorithm operates in-place, modifying the input array directly without using additional data structures. "See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    1 answer

    "First, lets dive deeper into the question. I would ask - What are the top challenges facedtoday? What user segments work well, and what do we want to focus on? What do we know about competitors, and what can we learn from them? What user flows have the highest engagement in VR today? Are we focusing on consumer use cases or enterprise? Are we tackling activation or retention, or do we want to increase engagement? To build a strategy here I would target this from four differe"

    Anonymous Minnow - "First, lets dive deeper into the question. I would ask - What are the top challenges facedtoday? What user segments work well, and what do we want to focus on? What do we know about competitors, and what can we learn from them? What user flows have the highest engagement in VR today? Are we focusing on consumer use cases or enterprise? Are we tackling activation or retention, or do we want to increase engagement? To build a strategy here I would target this from four differe"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    3 answers

    "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."

    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

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    4 answers
    +1

    "Clarifying Questions: What age range are we looking at between 13-19? Any specific range we need to target? - Assume all teens Any demography we would target? - Worldwide Do they have access to phones/laptops or do we need to build an offline product? - Assume they have access to phones and laptops Are there any constraints around privacy or content moderation? - Yes What platform (Facebook core, Messenger, or another product) is this for? - Assume faceb"

    Kartik D. - "Clarifying Questions: What age range are we looking at between 13-19? Any specific range we need to target? - Assume all teens Any demography we would target? - Worldwide Do they have access to phones/laptops or do we need to build an offline product? - Assume they have access to phones and laptops Are there any constraints around privacy or content moderation? - Yes What platform (Facebook core, Messenger, or another product) is this for? - Assume faceb"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Load Balancer, Multiple API Servers, game Service, pub-sub system, HTTP Long Polling for status updates, write-through cache. No SQL DB to store user, game, and move information."

    gdecuri - "Load Balancer, Multiple API Servers, game Service, pub-sub system, HTTP Long Polling for status updates, write-through cache. No SQL DB to store user, game, and move information."See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    System Design
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    5 answers
    +2

    "Before diving into answering this, I would like to ask some clarifying questions - High Level - What is the mission, goal, target for this year for WhatsApp? Assumption answer - 10X growth in users Do we have any road map where we can see it with more details? Yes we wish, it is kind of all over the place Do you know how far we have come from the start of the year to achieve that target? Yeah we have done some progress but not much Which quarter are we in? 1"

    Umang S. - "Before diving into answering this, I would like to ask some clarifying questions - High Level - What is the mission, goal, target for this year for WhatsApp? Assumption answer - 10X growth in users Do we have any road map where we can see it with more details? Yes we wish, it is kind of all over the place Do you know how far we have come from the start of the year to achieve that target? Yeah we have done some progress but not much Which quarter are we in? 1"See full answer

    Execution
    Product Strategy
  • +4

    "Step 1: Define Objectives and Key Metrics Objectives: Understand the demand for group video calling. Assess the potential impact on user engagement. Identify technical and user experience considerations. Key Metrics: Call Frequency: Number of 1:1 calls per user. Call Duration: Average duration of 1:1 calls. Call Participants: Identify users who frequently call multiple individuals. Concurrent Calls: Instances where users are engaged in multiple 1:1 call"

    Bhavna S. - "Step 1: Define Objectives and Key Metrics Objectives: Understand the demand for group video calling. Assess the potential impact on user engagement. Identify technical and user experience considerations. Key Metrics: Call Frequency: Number of 1:1 calls per user. Call Duration: Average duration of 1:1 calls. Call Participants: Identify users who frequently call multiple individuals. Concurrent Calls: Instances where users are engaged in multiple 1:1 call"See full answer

    Data Scientist
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    1 answer

    "One time at Lifetime Fitness 2019, One student was throwing a lot of towels in the counter which made things very disorganized, then I made a compromise with my coworker to put 2 towels at a time and then it worked well because it made the workspace very organized."

    Amparo L. - "One time at Lifetime Fitness 2019, One student was throwing a lot of towels in the counter which made things very disorganized, then I made a compromise with my coworker to put 2 towels at a time and then it worked well because it made the workspace very organized."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    1 answer

    "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."

    Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +6 more
  • +4

    "I would start off by talking about the goals of this feature. What's the goal of Instagram with blue check marks? What does it aim to achieve? For the purpose of this question, I am assuming that Instagram wants to verify celebrities/famous people/brands as the original profile that differentiates them from fake profiles or other fan groups. It's also to develop trust and credibility amongst Instagram users. The mission of Facebook is to connect people across the globe. Instagram, which is a p"

    Anonymous Shrimp - "I would start off by talking about the goals of this feature. What's the goal of Instagram with blue check marks? What does it aim to achieve? For the purpose of this question, I am assuming that Instagram wants to verify celebrities/famous people/brands as the original profile that differentiates them from fake profiles or other fan groups. It's also to develop trust and credibility amongst Instagram users. The mission of Facebook is to connect people across the globe. Instagram, which is a p"See full answer

    Analytical
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