Ravi Mehta does an excellent job of explaining the Facebook interview process here.

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Below, I have summarized his most important points that all those interviewing for Meta/Facebook need to incorporate into their interview approach across all interview sessions:

Think at Scale

• Facebook looks for PMs that think at scale (billions not thousands of users).

• Don’t serve a niche but create products at scale to reach those niches. (i.e. Facebook Groups)

• As you answer interview questions, think to yourself: “Am I solving a big enough problem?”

• Facebook looks for people who dive into the weeds. Yes, they want people who gravitate to big problems — but they also want people who can get granular.

• What specifically are you solving for?

• How do you break the big idea into small, iterative, testable pieces?

• Facebook looks for people who use and love Facebook products.

• Facebook expects that you’ve already started to think about how to make Facebook better.

• Most (not all) questions during the product interview will be related to Facebook products in some way.

• Spend some time before the interview familiarizing yourself with key features and recent developments.

Your Homework

Complete a few Meta/Facebook prompts keeping at least 3 of these ideas in mind. Do you find your solutions are scalable to at leat 500 million or 1 billion people?