Interview Questions

Aayush S. - "With $1 billion to invest in generative AI, my focus would be on addressing unmet needs in everyday life. Here's my vision: Identify User Pain Points: I would start by understanding the specific challenges a segment of users face daily. Many people are integrating AI into their routines to simplify tasks, yet there are gaps that need to be filled. Learn from ChatGPT’s Success: ChatGPT's rapid growth to 200 million users demonstrates the demand for AI solutions that genuinely solve"See full answer

Anonymous Bird - "Here's my structure: Align with interviewer on understanding of the product and state key assumptions Product rationale What is the product (1-2 sentences)? Why does it exist? How does it fulfill Meta's mission? Who are the key stakeholders and users of the product? Business goal: Key Users and value User type User flow (high level) Intersection of value North Star Metric Supporting metrics for different user types Counter-metrics"See full answer

Kaitlyn M. - "System architecture diagram. Define API params, responses, tradeoffs between caching and webhooks to update message delivery status."See full answer

Karthik R. - "Good Discussion on the distributed messaging queues (Complex topic with lot of nuances) Liked the mind-map style drawing of requirements and metrics capture Touched on different types of queue styles (point to point, pub-sub, fan-out/fan-in) Storage and WAL usage was interesting Some distributed queue challenges that could be helpful to highlight / expand are: Message guarantee / semantics - Ordering of messages across different servers Replication Master slave architecture or Pe"See full answer

Vineet M. - "Precision - Out of all the things we picked as correct, how many were actually correct? recall - Out of all the things that were truly correct, how many did we actually find?"See full answer

Henry H. - "Overall, a successful Netflix viewing session requires that the user was able to find a piece of content that they loved watching. Now, to break this down, how we might define this: -Time browsing (from app open to content played) -Satisfaction --> inferred satisfaction: did user complete watching the piece of content? --> explicit: did the user rank that they loved the content (2 thumbs up)? The way I would evaluate a new Top Picks ML feature would be to implement an A/B test as follows: Te"See full answer

Izzy K. - "Clarifying questions (since there is no interviewer to clarify, I will state and make my assumptions below): Is this an app for park-goers, Six Flags employees, or some other stakeholder? Assumption: this is an app for park-goers Is there an age-limit on the app? Assumption: There is no specific age-limit, but it should be family friendly Will this app be standardized across all Six Flags locations? Assumption: yes To design this product, I will explain my thought proces"See full answer

Alan T. - "I want to work at Meta because of its reputation as a company that consistently pushes the boundaries of technology, particularly in areas like AI, machine learning, and immersive technologies such as AR and VR. I admire Meta's mission to bring people closer together and create meaningful connections, as well as its focus on long-term innovation, such as the development of the metaverse. As an AI engineer, I'm excited about the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that have a global impa"See full answer

Shivastuti K. - "For somebody who needs accessibility accommodation, this doesn't have a transcript so it is not useful to me."See full answer

Niranjan M. - "Interesting question. Let's take a step back and focus on the WHAT and WHY of Google Flights. The narrative for Google Flights as a product or platform imo is: As a platform, I wish to make flight information available, so that users can make knowledgable decisions based on their travel needs. So essentially, it helps users by providing information, so that they can make optimized decisions. In order to determine if Google should introduce ads, we should consider the impact on both val"See full answer

John F. - "Currently, I do a lot of data analysis using Azure Databricks and PowerBI. In Databricks, I write some basic SQL queries to retrieve the data and then pull that data into PowerBI for analysis. While this is sufficient, I believe there is room to make this skill set stronger. One way that I mitigate this currently is to maintain a strong relationship with our data analytics team. Whenever I have issues massaging or querying the data, I will reach out to one of those team members to help me get to"See full answer

Kanwarpreet S. - "Credibility is very important for success of any team. And it is something that takes time to build, but if i am inheriting a team that i did not build, i would spend dedicated time to understand team structure, dynamics and skill levels for every team member. Domain knowledge and experience are other important factors i would learn about each team member. In regular meetings i would introduce the culture of openness and respect where team members feel free to bring in ideas and constructive fee"See full answer

Pankhuri T. - "Hi Everyone, As an aspiring product manager, I feel with the latest Ray-Ban or Orion AR glasses that provides hands-free experience to the user. So basically, with these glasses you can interact, ask it to remember where you parked and what can you make with the ingredients which are in front of you, I think an extension to it can be a very great healthcare product. Now let's imagine that this glass is storing all your eating habits, what medicines you take, with an integration to meta watches"See full answer

EssGee - "I think i would start by asking what's driving the strategy for testing new ad formats? Possible options could be Increase monetization? Improve ad effectiveness? Any other objectives? Assuming that its both 1&2 - we want to test new ad formats to gauge if these are more effective and lead to higher monetization Ground the conversation into current scenario Instagram Reels is aa short form video platform that users use to showoff their creativity Reels is a relatively new addition to"See full answer

Anonymous Warbler - "ATTEMPT 2: Facebook Dating Sign up for a dating profile if you have FB account You see profiles of others who signed up It’s presented in a form browse cards Like or Not like profile Like + Like = Match = Unlocks to exchange messages Meetup + Date Facebook Dating - Helping people meet to date -> potential connections or long-term partner or marriage Users Just to date / meet new people Look for a meaningful relationship Look for marriage or partners"See full answer

Yair G. - "Are we speaking of all Meta Ads products on something specific? All of them Meta is a social media and AI company that generates most of it's revenue from Ads on social media. Meta's mission is to empower people to build communities and bring the world closer together. If ads violate the community guidelines regulations that can directly hurt both Meta's mission and its revenue stream. For example ads that include hate speech are against community guidelines and also hurts Meta's mission. Ha"See full answer

Megha V. - "Gradient Descent is an optimisation strategy used in several supervised learning models. It is the technique for finding the optimum solution of an objective function. Typically, for a linear regression use case, it is used to find the weights and bias that produce the lowest loss. It involves computing the partial derivative of the objective function with respect to the weight and bias vectors. To find the optima of the function, the derivative is equated to 0, and iteratively the weight and b"See full answer

Vishal S. - "Product Understanding - Ads are what you see from companies as stories, posts, reels. Post are from users (connections). We have to design an experience which produces maximum engagement while generating ad revenue. Clarifying Questions - Is it specific to posts/stories/reels ? Is there an existing post to ads ratio or do we have to start from scratch? Is it specific to a device/OS? Is it specific to a region/user demographic? Assumption - Existing posts to ads ratio"See full answer