Facebook Product Manager Execution Interview: Comments & Reactions

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Very informative but did not seem like a mock interview at all. It was like an informative lecture from an industry expert.

Its clear that this guy knows his job.

Great answer and overview of the FB's Reactions feature. It can even answer a different question on 'is REACTIONS a good addition to the FB platform?'

Yea, agree with many comments. This does not seem realistic in terms of an interview. Indeed great insights the the FB ecosystem.

This is not an interview. The elephant in the room is how do we tradeoff between increase in reactions and decrease in comments. The PM didn't provide a clear answer. If I were an exec asking this question, his answers would make me very concerned about the state of the business.

Some amazing content here!

This is a goldmine.

I can hear fine. May be they fixed it?

The interviewee gave such a perfessional answer and it's apparent that he worked at Facebook and know all the metrics... My question is : is it fair to ask an average interviewee to answer this quality of answer?

i did not think he was rambling! his explanation was very clear - not sure why he self reflected that! he has a high bar i guess!

It's more talking and less execution. Its so uni-directional. Candidate isn't asking any questions, or collaborating with the interviewer. Not particularly among some of the good execution videos I have seen.

This was a root-cause analysis problem. He spent way too much time talking about the value of reactions and why. Instead, he should have spent a minute or two on the why these reactions matter to FB and the importance of both of the metrics. Then, dive into the root-cause analysis by first checking if this was an expected result of a change or we dont know why this happened. Then, talk about any changes to the way metrics collected or calculated, external factors (demographics, seasonality, competitors, etc.), internal factors (new feature role-out, expected AB testing, cannibalization, relevance of devices...), and finally see, if anything happened that is out-of-control of FB (political changes, natural disasters..). Finally, given both reactions and comments are critical metrics to the success of FB engagement, there is most likely a weekly review of these metrics with LT, so have an explanation to the root-cause and an action plan on what the team is doing to address it.

Candidate knew the product, but took way too long to answer the question. In a real interview, he would run out of time

Is this an interview? If so, I wouldn't hire someone irrespective of their qualification and skill set that talks non stop the entire window

The interviewees constant SMACKING while he is talking is very distracting..

Such poor audio quality. Please have the interviewees use a headphone.

Poor audio and video. Video is still forgivable. But it's a struggle to even listen to what he is saying

I used to like watching exponent videos, but I definitely have lost respect seeing all these Facebook promos. With the whistleblower case still recent, I’m surprised you’re having these people interviewed. I’m sure the people are good at their jobs, but they’re at a company that has failed their customers in both privacy and morality. You’re essentially still touting them as a cool company to work for when they’ve clearly done injustice to the public society.