Product Manager Mock Interview: Facebook Friend Requests are Down 10% (with Meta PM)
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2024
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In this interview, Lauren Ward (Meta PM) talks through an execution product management interview question about how to handle declining friend requests at Facebook.
Chapters -
00:00 - Introduction
00:34 - Question
00:48 - Clarifying questions
01:23 - Answer
16:42 - Interview analysis
17:51 - Tips
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Very unique interviewer style! Loved Laurens approach of leading with questions and creative pivots. I used to work with her, and she is such a star!
At Facebook, right?
Really awesome. Some great questions.
Did feel at times like Lauren was tried to yield water from a stone with the interviewer but I appreciate her persistence and calm!
Great way to describe it. Could’ve been a better story if narrated a little differently. Good demonstration of pushing through
It feels more like a fishing expedition than drawing from well structured issue tree. Good attempt nonetheless.
Excellent root cause analysis, and I will consider this a great example for debugging any issue
And I loved the questions that PM asked the interviewer
This approach would take a PM a team and a few days to execute. User segmentation on target metric would do this in 5 mins
This RCA interview was quite different and difficult to tackle with. Still Lauren did a great work. 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was a great answer.
Just a few additions I can think of :
Checking :
State wise cut
New/ Old user logins
% users sending requests across New/Old
#Requests/ Users for Old/New
Male/Female Cut
Also Requests have 2 main sources :
1. Search Traffic
2. Recommendations
Checking if % conversion across Search and Recommendations has come down.
Probably are recommendations got broken.
Hey Shivam, glad you liked the video! Thanks for sharing your thoughts as well 💪
perfect answer!
While the structure is great, I found it a bit odd that there wasn’t a discussion/alignment on 1) definition of ‘friend requests’ and 2) impact on overall user count.
Some additional questions I’d ask :
-Is friend request here = # of requests submitted or # of requests accepted ?
-Did we change anything on the user workflows on how a friend request can be submitted ? (eg friends can be added from their profile or via suggested friends feature)
Hey Pratyush, those are great questions. Thanks for sharing!
This was a very strange interview. The first line of thought should have been if the decrease is specific to the 'friend request' functionality or if the overall user activity has reduced. This would have been a much more cleaner route leading directly to reduced activity in Europe and so on.
The approach was really smooth
awesome mock interview
Loved it
Bring her back on. I need pt 2.
I don’t believe this is a good answer. She did well in terms of having various buckets for analysis (internal, external, etc.), but the whole purpose is for her to analyze, not ask him (the interviewer) for the answer.
Would not rely on this for practice.
Interesting but... annoying haha. If the interviewer is the person with all the info, then as the PM I'd just ask what has been abnormal lately. And then after he relays some info, then you can draw potential conclusions from there. It does show how she was critically thinking, however again if she had the metrics or other information infront of her this would expedite the process. With all that said, it just all sound like one make it up as you go situation.
The interviewer gives the answer at 8:58. The candidate still does not get it . The interviewer then further explains that this is the reason FB friend requests are down . I would consider this a poor interview.
The law in Europe may not have been enough to cause a 10% decline in US friend requests, so she was checking more areas to incase the issue had multiple factors.
If the law was passed in US it's a more direct route , as a 10% overnight decline in that case is more than reasonable.
People typically send the majority of their requests within the same country, not across continents.
Very unstructured answer.