Meta/Facebook Product Manager Interviews: Execution Tradeoff Questions

The most difficult product mgmt and data science interview questions at tech companies like Facebook are tradeoff questions in the execution interview. Here's a powerful framework to tackle these questions

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[gayatriiyer]

you have the best product management videos. i have seen so many but none is as insightful as yours. your approach is systematic and practical...! thank you so much for sharing

[creatortoceoacademy]

I can’t thank you enough for all of your tips and for you taking the time to teach and prepare me for the FB interviews! I’m so excited to say that I got a FB offer and I certainly credit it to you.

Thank you for your personal sessions with me and creating relevant and real content that can’t be copied. I love your authenticity and your passion to help others excel.

[creatortoceoacademy]

I can’t thank you enough for all of your tips and for you taking the time to teach and prepare me for the FB interviews! I’m so excited to say that I got a FB offer and I certainly credit it to you.

Thank you for your personal sessions with me and creating relevant and real content that can’t be copied. I love your authenticity and your passion to help others excel.

[moremorecha_]

Dianna, THANK YOU so much for this video. I just finished my execution interview and am so glad I watched this prior to it! Your frameworks and tip are all so to the point, you deserve more subscribers and I’m sure they’ll come before you know it. Appreciate everything you do!

[gangao]

really great. Love this. Should’ve discovered the channel earlier!

[weiweiliu]

Thank you Dianna. I am preparing my interview for product sense and just found your channel. It's really helpful that you provide a useful template to structure different product sense questions!

[waz]

Great video Diana, would be great to see other examples - perhaps the IG stories one you mentioned or trade offs between comments and reactions in FB - I think that would really help

[rahulbhatcmu]

Hey Dianna, Great video - I really liked how you put forward a well defined structure for the Case. I do have a few questions though


1.Regarding Metrics - Can we ask the interviewer what stage the product is in (Growth vs Engagement vs Monetization)

2.Regarding A/B Testing :Should the control groups be segmented as per geography ? For example 3 groups per country
3. Regarding A/B Testing :Should we consider factors such as - User age / Gender / Time when the user had opened the video?


Appreciate your content!

[launchpadA]

Your videos and content are really helpful! Keep it coming! One piece of feedback, the soundtrack is mildly distracting as I try to listen to you and take notes.

[sshodhan]

Thanks for sharing this framework on tradeoffs

[songlu]

Thank you Diana for explaining this tradeoff framework with a real example. I am wondering if you would make a video for the strategy questions in PM interview?

[jgrimaldo]

Happy to help with the goal :). Hi Dianna, is there a particular reason why you didn't call out advertisers as one of the user types of this ecosystem?

[janeli]

Hi Dianna, thanks for such great video!

[samw]

Question 1: When running the A/B test here, would the null hypothesis be that ad placement within the video has no impact on total ad clicks?
Question 2: This video seems to be more about setting up an A/B test rather than purely tradeoff questions?

[Maya-AD]

Thank you for creating these incredible, valuable, clear contents.👍✌ Please keep it up!

[hellokittie]

idk about others but for me, the background music is kinda distracting. The content is amazing, as always

[pedromillet]

I miss clarifying questions at some point: how are those ads? We know that sometime youtube forces you to see the full ad and sometimes they allow the user to resume the video in a few seconds. Are those ads skipable or forced? Are the ads equal? Which is the average duration of the content?

[amirfakhim]

Hi Diana, great videos. Thank you. I stopped watching other channels and videos. I am glad I found your channel. Is there anywhere I can find a comprehensive list of the metrics for FB per product and funnel stage(reach, activation, engagement, retention, revenue, and referral )? Many thanks.

[EvanSpielberg]

The (current) Biggest question from my side, after watching a few of your videos for Execution/Analytic I noticed the order of "Key Metric" and "Hypothesis" are flipped. Are there specific scenarios where you recommend discussing one before the other?

[iam_Riri]

Hi Dianna!, thanks for another video, Is your framework suitable for this kind of tradeoff question, for example, discuss the tradeoff between "People you may know feature" and showing ads on the newsfeed?