Interview Questions

Srihitha J. - "my answer: void* memcpy(void* dest, const void* src, size_t n) { unsigned char* uDest = static_cast(dest); const unsigned char* ucSrc = static_cast(src); for(size_t i= 0; i(dest); const unsigned c"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

Ursula Z. - "Customer happiness Execution velocity Engineering engagement Capacity utilization"See full answer

Seyed rasoul J. - "I would start with the company vision then assuming we have more than one product team, craft the vision for the product through a collaboration of PMs and Tech leads, then based on that I will define the scope of each product team's milestones to achieve the product vision and go from both ends to fill the gap from what we already have and what needed to achieve the milestones."See full answer

Aniket D. - "Goal: Before we look at FB Newsfeed, let's align ourselves with the overall goal of FB, that is, to bring the world closer together. Feature Introduction/Clarification: FB Newsfeed is a core feature of the social networking platform that allows people to share updates, and catch up with what the world around them is talking about, group activities, events, etc. Actions: On Newsfeed, one can: share their updates, feelings, etc. catch up with updates from the people, groups, pa"See full answer

Hamilton D. - "no"See full answer

Grishma W. - "The three most important goals as a PM for Insta stories: Usage, Visibility & Reach"See full answer

Techzen I. - "Implemented the Java code to find the largest island. It is similar to count the island. But in this we need to keep track of max island and compute its perimeter."See full answer

AnonymousAxolotl - "This is an answer to a different question. :D"See full answer

Gabriele G. - "What about exploiting the hash set and that is it? def smallestSubstring(s: str, t: str) -> str: if len(t) > len(s): return "" r = len(s) - 1 not_found = True while r > 0 and not_found: subs_set = set(s[0:r + 1]) for c in t: if not c in subs_set: not_found = False if not_found: r -= 1 else: r += 1 l = 0 not_found = True while l < r and not_"See full answer

Praveen K. - "I did not give the proper ans so gettting rejected"See full answer

Saket S. - "Project Schedule is a living document which is prepared based on inputs from the entire team including product, engineering, finance, sales, marketing, legal etc. It is owned by Project/Program Manager but it reflects progress of the whole team. Inputs required for the development of schedule includes project charter, list of stakeholders, project scope, WBS, freeze calendar, vendor SOWs etc. I will use the following approach for schedule development: Copy Milestone level plan from Project"See full answer

Raina M. - "Clarify the ask/ goal and scope Talk about the general need for travel in a Covid/post covid world + how it aligns with Meta's mission and business (the Why) Audience /Behavior segmentation with needs/pain points Prioritize Suggested 3 Solution territories Dived deep into 1 and mentioned tradeoffs/ risks for that one Summarized with a few GTM considerations/ideas Please note: Although the interview was scoped for 30 mins, the interviewer spent the first 15 diving into past work e"See full answer

Alexey T. - "with t1 as (select employee_name, department_id, salary, avg(salary) over (partition by departmentid) as avgsalary, abs(salary - avg(salary) over (partition by department_id)) as diff from employees ) select employee_name, department_id, salary, avg_salary, denserank() over (partition by departmentid order by diff desc) as deviation_rank from t1 order by departmentid asc, deviationrank asc, employee_name `"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Clarifying question: We are just interested in facebook's ad rev and not other meta products We are looking at the rev coming per year globally formula = (avg. ads shown per min on fb products) x (avg. time spent per user per day in mins) x (avg. rev that fb makes per view) x (DAU) x 365 assumption all kind of ads give the same rev per view to fb all kind of geographies give the same rev per view to fb avg. ads shown per min -> user can scroll upto 20 posts easily in a min, lets"See full answer