Execution Interview Questions

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

slouchingtowardssv - "Clarify the problem / make assumptions: What are we defining as misleading? For this problem, any video that contains information countering accepted scientific/research-driven results What is meant by fix? Does that entail removing said videos? For this problem, I want to see if we can minimize the amount of videos pulled from YouTube Intro to the product: YouTube is a video-sharing platform that was acquired by Google in 2006 YouTube's original mission statement:"See full answer

Hmm T. - "Understand what is the business objective behind the ask ? We should not be adopting trends just because everyone is adopting, it has to be tied to business objective Once objective is clear - we need to determine feasibility and cost\benefit assessment by deciding on pilot candidates - since its bank, do we want to integrate this with mobile banking only ? Once we decide on candidate - we will also need to decide on buy vs build decision ? If there are any fintech offerings (like Zell"See full answer

Tanu M. - "When it comes to Metrics, I always think of one thing " What cannot be measured cannot be done". The product that I am managing goal is on enabling the products for our partners so that our partners can have a seamless experience of doing business with us which in turn will increase the revenue. The user segment for my product is mainly resellers who can resell the product to another customer so that the reach of the customers is more. The metrics which I am tracking are revenue, referrals, an"See full answer

Ash K. - "Below is the step by step approach I would take: Identify potential risks: Firstly, I thoroughly analyze the project and identify potential risks that could impact its success. This involves reviewing project documentation, conducting stakeholder interviews, and seeking input from team members who have expertise in different areas. Assess the impact and likelihood: I evaluate each identified risk by assessing its potential impact on the project objectives and determining the likelihood of"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

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

Sarabjeet S. - "Clarification - How is this feature accessed by users? Is it part of the camera app or after taking the photo or both? Assume both. Is bulk upload possible? Yes Goal - Drive engagement with this feature so Pixel owners upload more pictures to google photos Actions that support this goal of engagement with this feature: Click upload right after taking a photo from camera. Take a stored picture from saved photos and click upload for it Select multiple photos from saved photos and click u"See full answer

Robbie A. - "A great answer will: Lay out the mission of facebook and how reactions relate to it (FB mission is to connect people, FB app has posts that make up a feed, reactions enable more engagement with posts Describe the benefits of reactions for users (less friction to engage) and for FB (more user engagement with posts which helps viewer and poster, improve newsfeed algo) Notice that you can evaluate demand for a 7th reaction by looking at posts with a high ratio of comments to reactions, and ma"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

Adib M. - "Ask if the quality aspect is negotiable? Clearly hoping it is not. Then move on to explain nicely about the iron triangle - scope, time, resources. With scope and resources fixed, the time would need to be variable unless the project is considered cookie cutter, the exact project has been done many times in the past. (which is unlikely). If time cannot be relaxed, then the scope should be variable."See full answer

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

Lakshmi tejaswi S. - "First I would like to define what a negative experience might construe Unable to book the reservation Customers unable to cancel reservations The customers unable to find restaurants in the location they are in customers unable to interact or leave reviews. I will try to solve for the first one. In this scenario, I would like to understand the frequency of the issue’s occurrence. I will try to understand if there was a new feature rolled out that may have impacted it such as chang"See full answer

Anonymous Chinchilla - "Advice would be really appreciated! Clarification: To download the app, do users need to go to the app store/or open a web browser to click download? [Assume the interviewer said it is up to me] Approach : summarize the overall process of sharing listing out how could we optimize every step in the process to make sharing features effective ranking each feature by their priorities setting metrics, perform A/B tests and evaluate results. **Step1: Summarize Shari"See full answer

Anonymous Goat - "Comprehend the Situation: What is the goal?The goal is to introduce an ACH payment method in the United States for Netflix. Why is this important?ACH payments can offer a convenient and cost-effective payment option for customers. Who are the stakeholders?Stakeholders include Netflix customers, the product team, finance, legal, and compliance teams. How does ACH work? transaction flow and potential benefits. Identify the Customer: Recurring subscribers and"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

Sri H. - "First of all, are some of these hypothetical questions? Doesn't sound like a recent Meta Analytical/Execution and rather is a strategy question but you can lead someone from a decision to an execution, I guess!"See full answer