Meta Execution Interview Questions

pmpractice - "I would structure my answer in the following way: What's the situational context? Mission of Uber Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast What would feed into the decision-making? The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"See full answer

Anjali M. - "Define Groups: Platform where users ( organizers and members) with shared interests can come together and express their thoughts and opinions. Meta's mission: To bring ppl closer together by giving them access to tools and technology. Groups Mission alignment: Gives Organizers and members to come closer together over shared interests and build community. Users : Organizers ( create a group-> invite people on the platform --> can accept or deny a member to the group --> Intera"See full answer

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying questions: Clarify what Facebook Lite is Assumed answer: It’s a slimmed down version of mobile FB app optimized for slower connections and uses less data than the primary mobile FB app by not offering features like videos and high resolution photos. It is only available on Android and primarily built by FB to the developing world can have access to FB. What is meant by “opens are down”? Assumed answer: The total amount of opens of the app on Android devices"See full answer

Exponent - "This type of question is a Technical problem. Although you will not need to actually code the feature, it's important to understand basic technical concepts. Being able to cover these concisely with clarity shows you're an effective communicator. Here, we'll go over the broad technical steps needed to implement a basic reactions feature on Facebook. Briefly, the steps required are the following: Migrate the database to support reactions Write API code to be able to react to a post, and"See full answer

Kiran M. - "The primary objective of Instagram Stories is to share fleeting moments and engage with followers in a more casual way, through photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Its also used to showcase all ongoing Instagram Live events. There are 4 user segments Story Viewers Story Creators (who posted the story) Live event creators Live event viewers No of stories posted per user per day -> How to nudge users to post more stories and tag their friends/location. No of stories view"See full answer

Anonymous Hawk - "A few clarifying questions: Algorithm that is specifically used to match individuals? Define better? More matches, higher likelihood of relationship? etc. Next I'd like to consider the product's goals, how users engage with the app, how we'd measure those engagements, and how they align with our goals. Considering Goals Facebook's mission is to give people the tools to build communities FB Dating's goal for the end user is to find a partner, but for Facebook it is really ab"See full answer

Pm E. - "Methodology: Clarify some of the terms in our question List high level causes based on the category and gather context information, rule out the ones that have low probability or out of scope Drill down the causes and establish a few hypotyhesis Investigate and test the hypothesis I have and try to fix the problem Clarify questions: Define FB logins: through 3rd party Apps, Assuming our data is accurate, double check with 3rd party Apps that our understanding is correct/ or cr"See full answer

Sayee M. - "depending on project phase, apply various methodologies. scrum for app dev, waterfall for data migration, Testing (TDD for dev, FUT FiT for manual, UAT) , OCM has it own methodology ."See full answer

Mahesh M. - "Clarification questions Events product - Is that events tools in FB where people can create events and invite people to participate OR a section in FB for specific local/country events so that people can go in and view what others are talking about a specific event and what's going on in local neighborhood. ie think of a section in FB for halloween. People can visit events page for halloween and see where local parties are happening, promotions etc. FB Algorithm will auto curate event spec"See full answer

Neha A. - "What is the goal of FB as a company, how does marketplace help. Who are the different users (Sellers and buyers. Also mention advertisers). Sellers can be artists or small/ home business owners. they also also be infrequent sellers who come to FB marketplace when they are moving cities or moving to a new location. Buyers can be low and high engagement. We will focus on sellers - if more sellers come on the platform, it will attract buyers, generate sales, and spin the flywheel. Also, if a sel"See full answer

Bhavana J. - "First let me try to understand the metric: when you say traffic to facebook marketplaces, you mean that number of people clicking on the marketplace tab or landing on the marketplace section has reduced. Am I right? Ok, here's my approach: I will first try to narrow down the scope of the problem by understanding what the details associated with the drop. Then I will try to hypothesize on what all could have caused it. Finally I will try to propose a solution basis the findings. Understanding th"See full answer

Mark - "Clarification Am I the PM for overall Xbox or certain part of the Xbox team? Interview (I): let's assume you own the overall Xbox product Are there particular user segments that the MSFT Gaming division is trying to focus on as their strategy? I: nothing in particular, why don't you tell me where we should focus? What are some challenges that Xbox have been facing? (ie revenue from xbox hardware purchase? xbox live subscription purchase? engagement?) I: nothing in pa"See full answer

P D. - "FB Vision: To empower users to build communities and bring the world closer together Reactions Product Goal: To enable users to express them in a quick and easy manner on posts / comments / videos / photos etc. and hence bringing the world closer. Currently only "Like" option is there which indicates to the creators that users like your posts. User Personas Content Creators Pain Points Single Reaction Option: Only users who like the content are able to use the reactions f"See full answer

Amit S. - "Fast food service Good service application."See full answer

Soso K. - "Clarification: This is only for Facebook and not for Instagram, whatsapp etc. Facebook Hashtag helps Meta users to drive visibility into user posts as well as help categorize a post, feeling to what others in the community might be feeling. This helps bring the community together and that aligns with the mission of Facebook, which is to bring the world closer. This feature is also not a new feature in overall social media landscape, Twitter did it before and gained instant popularity. Wit"See full answer

Yespm T. - "Define Product: Facebook events lets people organize gatherings in the real world with people on Facebook.  As a creator, you can create public or private event, set date/time/location, invite people.  Invitees can see these events, view who’s coming and provide an answer (RSVP). They can share events with their connections. Define Metric: Clarify which specific success metric has dropped? Assume it's the Avg # of responses (rsvp) per event that has dropped Clarify how mu"See full answer