Facebook Product designer interview - Whiteboard challenge examples
Jul 28, 2020
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Hey guys,
I’m preparing for my virtual “onsite” at Facebook for Product Designer role.
Could you please give me some examples of a whiteboard exercise (Problem solving) that they might ask?
Thanks!
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”Solving Product Design Exercises” book was very helpful as well.
I’ve got “Redesign a smartlock” during my exercise this week.
I’ve got an offer for Product Designer IC4 (no open roles currently, though...)
I wonder if it’s possible to reevaluate the level, because IC4 feels like a downgrade for me... Was interviewing for IC5 one.
I also have an L6 offer from Amazon.
Pretty standard behavioral in terms of what your strengths and weaknesses are, how you could do things better, why you pushed for certain solutions, how you measure impact, etc. The thing that shot me in the foot was that I leaned too heavy on playing up my EQ and collaboration vs. not going into enough details about my process. I just sort of assumed that the interviewer didn’t need to hear about the obvious steps of whiteboarding, flow charting, wireframing, etc but I was wrong.
Make sure you’re able to speak about what the early stages of the project looked like. How certain decisions were made based off your collaboration with research, product, and devs. How you netted out on certain design solutions and how you discovered that it was the right direction.
Hope that helps!
Spend a good amount of time defining the problem and don’t just jump straight into wires.
Speaking as a rejected candidate, don’t underestimate the behavioral. That’s probably more difficult than the whiteboard.
Gluck!
Whiteboard questions are pretty high level and generic so its really up to you as the candidate to narrow it down in 45 mins by asking questions. Hope this helps!
Also is it possible if you can review my resume?