Facebook product sense interview mock or tips?
I have a final round of the Product Sense interview coming up for a Product Manager position at Facebook. I have cleared the all other rounds already. The feedback from my onsite for product sense was that I needed to identify problem worth solving first. Hence they asked for a repeat. So I am struggling to understand if I need to break down the ambiguous problem that they present to me better or if there is something else that is expected and how to approach it without completely losing structure. Does anyone have tips on how to approach identifying problems in the product design/sense problems? Or where I could practice these questions and get appropriate feedback? I would love to have a mock interview with a FB PM. Willing to buy you lunch or pay as well. Thanks!
For product sense - you can try breaking down a lot of FB widgets to understand “why” X or Y was built.
Get better at strategic thinking. Don’t just dive into mocking something out. Take the problem, break it down into components, talk through each component with respect to business/engineering/strategy. From that give a summary of trade offs and specify a conclusion on how to move forward. THEN start designing.
The short answer is to 1) use a framework 2) describe the framework you're planning to use to the interviewer after you ask your clarifying questions 3) tie almost everything you say to the Facebook mission and to the goal you set for your product/feature. The standards are higher for on-site than for the videoconference screens. I did great during the phone screen and bombed the on-site because I over-rehearsed and slept poorly the night before the interviews. You will probably get asked "How would you improve Facebook?," so maybe play that one out a few times.
What frameworks did u use?
Sorry for the slow response. Try googling "product design interview frameworks." There's one called the CIRCLES framework that I borrowed from, though I refined it a bit for myself because I'm personally really bad at brainstorming until I've really narrowed a problem down.
What’s the interview standard to get to an offer? Will it require every interviewer to recommend you? Or majority?
Did you end up getting an offer?
Hello! I am in the exact same boat, cleared all rounds and being asked to repeat Product Sense interview, if I clear it I will get the offer. Could you please help summarize what worked for you and any tips to prepare?
How’d you do?
Sounds like they’re asking about how you would define metrics and how you would prioritize different features. There are a few different frameworks out there to help with this