Meta Interview Questions

dreamingincode - "In the API design, the interviewer is switching between RPC style (operation based endpoints) and REST style (resource oriented). Sticking to one convention and explaining why it is preferred over the other e.g. REST if the twitter domain maps nicely to resources e.g. /tweet or /follower or /user would help to create a more consistent and unified API. It would make it easier for clients to integrate with the API as well."See full answer

Nikitha G. - "Clarify: What is a transaction in Instagram Shops? Users click on an item and complete the payment in the Instagram Shops interface How many transactions happen in Instagram shop per day/month? What percentage of users have completed at least 1 transaction on Instagram Shops in the last year? Key Metric to improve: # Users completing a transaction Goals of the Product / Feature: Meta’s goal is to build community and connect people together Instagram’s goal is to connect and"See full answer

Philip C. - "Assumptions Assume that the functionality of Meta Pay is the ability to send and receive payments to other Meta account holders. Payment infrastructure connects to bank accounts Assume users can maintain a balance in Meta Pay Assume life cycle of the product is post launch adoption phase Clarifying questions Can I send or receive payments to a meta user from a different platform? e.g., fb to IG > assume the answers is “yes” Where is it available? > Assume answer is “US” "See full answer

Steve Y. - "Define: How is daily post view calculated Isolate Issues: Data issue Time period Geo IOS vs Android vs Web Correlated Metrics in the funnel DAU Time spent/ scrolls Engagement - likes, comments External factors Competitor actions Big events Internal factors Product launch Feature change"See full answer

Patrick W. - "Clarify: Any specific types of groups (families or business)? Type of travel (air, train)? Global or domestic? Assumptions: Users have interest in travel. Content within Meta apps can help FB, whatsapp, Instagram. Have access to user data with travel preferences and budget. Resources to interact with travel businesses and institutions. Constraints: Users typically think of meta apps in the early discovery phase of travel, typically use travel company apps to complete experience e.g. booking,"See full answer

Mrinalini R. - "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"See full answer

Simran M. - "To answer why Spotify introduced Podcasts, I would like to use 3C framework- Customer, Competitors and Company. Customers We have seen Spotify has a high WAU. This means users are engaged to the platform for music. Listeners need some new trend to listen to while going to the gym for example, or being stuck in a traffic. Sense of listening to something productive is what users need these days. Podcasts are lesser commitment than audiobooks because of short episode length"See full answer

Ra R. - "In my time at Snapp! I was in charge of communicating the product backlog to our CEO. We had a shared Jira board that he had access to and I made specifically for him. One day he saw me in the office and said he doesn’t know anything about our backlog and that’s because I failed to communicate with him. I got upset at first because of the fact that I made the dashboard exclusively for him. But I tried to ask questions to understand his point of view in depth. He then mentioned he doesn't have t"See full answer

Elisa L. - "Facebook’s mission statement is to build community, so any product related to movies that Facebook builds should have that in mind. I’ll start by looking at the lifecycle of a movie and then some current pain points that people might have to think about opportunities for a movies product. The lifecycle of a movie revolves around creation (script, filming, casting, acting), production, and distribution (streaming services vs theatres). An idea for creation could be helping users collaborate or"See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarify: Zoom for business - we are referring to Zoom meetings for enterprise customers Are there any specific features or goals we want to track. Assumption - We are at overall zoom business for enterprise customers Is there any particular geography or demographics we want to look at - Assumption - we are looking at across the globe Goals: Zoom allows users to conduct meetings internally and externally with folks across the organization. Enterprise customers access Zoom with their cor"See full answer

Anonymous Stork - "For Xbox, the next-generation product I propose is a virtual reality headset. The rationale is threefold: Industry Trends: Competitors like Meta and Apple are investing heavily in VR/AR, signaling strong market potential. Xbox Legacy: Xbox has a history of pushing innovation in gaming hardware (e.g., Kinect), and VR represents the next frontier beyond traditional consoles. Strategic Need: With console sales flattening, Xbox must expand into new experiences that deepen engagement and different"See full answer

Srikant V. - "Used Recursive approach to traverse the binary search tree and sum the values of the nodes that fall within the specified range [low, high]"See full answer

Rita V. - "Gardening product for Meta Clarifying question: Is this going to be a new product? Or part of FB/IG? Gardening as a work? Pleasure? Lets start with META mission - Meta’s mission is to bring people together and form a community. In our case of gardening, it can be smart to solve the case of tips and questions, specially for users that just start to do some gardening. Its a nice hobby and can bring people to work together and support each other. Users I think I will go and seg"See full answer

Dhruv S. - "Before proceeding, I just wanted to clarify we wanted to check for the impact of showing content from non-friends in users’ feeds, and here non-friends I would assume could be anyone, but mainly like content creators, and I am not including ads here. But I wanted to ask if there is any current logic as to what posts to show based on users' affinity to those posts, maybe basis the user engagement to Insta feed. now objective of this would be to improve the engagement of the platform, as if users"See full answer

Zakery K. - "Conflict is a GREAT opportunity to really demonstrate that you care about someone and, through effective conflict resolution, build stronger authentic relationships with the people you work with. When faced with conflict, I prioritize understanding all perspectives involved. I start by actively listening to the other parties: asking clarifying questions to pinpoint the source of the conflict, reflecting back what I'm hearing to make sure I understand them correctly, and ultimately identify"See full answer

Scott S. - "Designing a Price Drop Tracker system like CamelCamelCamel involves creating a platform that tracks price changes for products on various e-commerce websites and notifies users when prices drop. Here’s a detailed system design for such a service: Functional Requirements User Registration and Authentication\: Users can register and log in. Support for social media logins (e.g., Google, Facebook). Product Tracking\: Users can add products to their watchlist for"See full answer

P R. - "First I'd like to clarify the definition of reactions and confirm that it's same as what exists today. Definition: Reactions provides users the ability to provide richer expression beyond 'like' Business goal: Since this is a mature product, the business goal is to improve user engagement Product goal: Bring people closer together by letting people provide more accurate sentiment to the community based on the content Personas: 1. Content creator 2. user using reactions **Li"See full answer

Ash J. - "Clarify: I will assume that misinformation includes posts, videos and pictures and that sources could be Groups/ Pages and Individuals. High level structure: Mission, Information funnel and drop-off points, Metrics & Trade-offs, Mitigations Mission/ Strategy: Facebook's mission is to bring the world closer together and empower people to build community. Reliable information is key to fostering a healthy community. In light of recent world events and public sentiment, it is important f"See full answer

Tara J. - "I would like to speak loud to narrow the scope of this question so I can be effective in identifying a solution to the problem on hand. Hope that is OK. You mentioned, “Re-design the airport experience”. Is there a goal for this re-design exercise? Some top goals that come to my mind are the following. Please guide me so I can set it and we can proceed from there. “Increase the number of passengers who travel to and from this airport” “Improve customer satisfaction” **“Get in"See full answer

Anonymous Newt - "CQ: What's the goal - we are just exploring Any specific timeline we are targeting - NA Why specifically podcast - its a growing area and can help engage the customers Any specific geography to be kept on mind - You tell Approach: Understand Netflix’s landscape Understand more about the Podcast space via Porter’s 5 Forces framework Decide mode of entry Tradeoffs & Risk Netflix’s landscape; Product - OTT player Who uses - kids, adults When do they use – leisure"See full answer