Meta Interview Questions

R K. - "I would start with some clarifying questions: What is the goal of the 'Report ad' feature? what do you think? Are we looking at the blue app or Instagram? The ad placement can be adjusted to the both apps, so look at it has a whole Are we looking at a specific location of the report ad? like stories or feed or reels? Nope Are we looking at a specific OS? everywhere Is there some timeline? or restrictions? no Are we looking at a specific market? worldwide Thank you, I"See full answer

Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on the Amazon shopping cart specifically, or are there any other features involved? Are there any specific user groups (e.g., Prime users, international users) we need to consider? Is there a particular focus on conversion or user engagement? 1. Business Context Feature Goal: The cart serves as the gateway between user interest and the actual purchase, helping to reduce friction in the buying process. Business Model:Amazon take"See full answer

Reach G. - "What is Facebook Live? Facebook Live is the posting of a live video -> Virtual events, QA, conversation, presentation/performance. It can be on your Facebook page, event, or group. Mission Facebook's mission is to connect people and bring the world closer together. The mission of Facebook Live, from my perspective, is to enable individuals to engage ( message), discuss, and learn in real-time with their role models, influencers, and others to discover and establish stronger connect"See full answer

theproductguy - "Clarifying Questions and possible responses: both audio and video goals: increase engagement time among groups/communitites and not require another platform to do group call (be one-stop for communication) region-TBD ios/android only available to users in a group to call users within the group who can intitiate these calls?- only admin? or anyone? metrics:NSM: feature engagement (C), number of calls made in a week per user (C). PM: % of people joining the call in a group"See full answer

A R. - "I liked the role of a TPM due to the opportunity to contribute to the multiple dimensions of software product development. As a TPM I need to collaborate with multiple teams like Engineering, Product, and other business functions, but I also get the opportunity to contribute to the technical aspects of the program/project. I can use my sharp analytical skills to identify/anticipate problems, and leverage my problem solving skills to unblock the teams. I orchestrate multiple teams effort to del"See full answer

דניאל ר. - "Implemented a recursive function which returns the length of the list so far. when the returned value equals k + 1 , assign current.next = current.next.next. If I made it back to the head return root.next as the new head of the linked list."See full answer

Tony A. - "The correct question is: Build a product for celebrities to engage with their followers."See full answer

Aryan B. - "I'm going to assume I'm the PM for Events. Clarifying Questions: Is there any reason why we're improving Events, perhaps any bugs or feature requests? I'll assume improvement is open-ended Are we scoped to Facebook mobile or web? I'll assume no I'd like to break this problem down into three areas: goals, users, and solutions. Let's talk about goals first. Higher-level goal for Facebook & Events The higher-level goal for Facebook is to bring people closer together and empower"See full answer

dan - "Approach: 1) clarify and communicate baseline assumptions. 2) communicate how solving for this will align to FB's mission. 3) define the user groups we are solving for 4) Define the user journey pre/during/after natural disasters 4.a) pick a user group we want to go with 5) identify the painpoints for this user groups user journey 6) think about solutions 7) prioritize and elaborate 1) clarify and communicate baseline assumptions. Q: Can you tell me why FB is interesting in building"See full answer

Khushbu R. - "General Approach (using Max-Heap) Use a max-heap (priority queue) of size k. For each point: Compute the distance to P. Push it into the heap. If heap size > k, remove the farthest point. The heap will contain the k closest points to P. import java.util.*; public class KClosestPoints { static class Point { int x, y; public Point(int x, int y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; } // Euclidean distance squared (no need to take square root) p"See full answer

Scott S. - " Functional Requirements Content Ingestion\: Ingest news articles from various sources (websites, social media, etc.). Handle different types of content (text, images, videos). Content Analysis\: Extract and preprocess text from articles. Analyze the content for potential indicators of fake news. Model Training and Prediction\: Use machine learning models to classify content as fake or real. Continuously improve models with new data and f"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Goal/Vission of company Understanding of Whatsapp -> Whatsapp platform for people where they can connect with people remotely, they can chat with them, they can do a video call, they can send pdf, location, contacts, etc. Basically, clarify your understanding of WhatsApp. Whatsapp Goal -> connecting the people remotely in a hassle-free manner Vission 3-4 years down the line -> More engagement and retention of the users. For this vision what is the user's intended action Define"See full answer

Apurv K. - "!! FEEDBACK WELCOME !! Clarify question By art we mean visual art, e.g. paintings? - Yes Is this a solution to create art on Instagram or to showcase existing art on Instagram? - Create art Why build this, Engagement or Acquisition? - Engagement Reframe: We want to increase Instagram engagement through creation and sharing of art with followers. Talking about the space The Internet has over time continuously reduced barriers to creative expression. From blogging to Twitter"See full answer

Sandeep K. - "Clarifying Questions Improve Netflix; Geography? India Vision - Becoming the best global entertainment distribution service Objective: Growth Engagement Retention I would focus on Growth because Highly growing adoption of internet increasing purchasing power in T2&T3 Indian consumers are constantly in need of finding new content to watch aligned with Netflix strategy of producing content for indian masses I believe Netflix has a really good immersive viewing/wathcing"See full answer

Kurt K. - "Why skip defining the data model? Or did I just miss it?"See full answer

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

Bryan K. - "Did a quick 30 min writeup on this and I'm submitting before I review/edit. Success metrics for Spotify Podcasts Clarify Focus is on Spotify Podcasts, which are audio content posted by Spotify Content creators Spotify Podcasts exists across all devices Spotify as a company is at a mature state and is looking to enhance retention and revenue (monetization) Spotify makes money through ads, Spotify Podcasts too - Assuming that Spotify Podcasts has some sort of ad product where adv"See full answer

Praveen - "First, I would like to discuss and align what is meaningful social interaction. Given facebook's mission to empower users to build communities and get people closer, it is important that users have "meaningful social interaction" The goal of defining this metric is to use this as a north star or success metric around any efforts to increase engagement. It can also help with ads targeting/monetization by showing ads only during deeper interactions and hence might get better yield. Given faceb"See full answer