Product design question
Build a new product as part of the Facebook crisis management team.
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Product sense under a sensitive, high stakes context, and the judgment to scope a crisis product without causing harm.
How to approach it
- Ask the interviewer which crisis type to focus on: natural disaster, missing person, or platform level misinformation surge.
- Name the users: people in the affected area, their friends and family searching for them, and on the ground responders.
- List pain points: no fast way to confirm safety, fragmented updates, panic driven rumors spreading faster than facts.
- Prioritize the pain point with the widest reach and the one Facebook's graph and location data can uniquely solve.
- Propose a targeted safety check flow with verified local feeds sourced from official responders.
- Define success as percent marked safe within an hour and reduction in flagged misinformation, with a guardrail on false check ins.
What a strong answer includes
- Picks one concrete crisis scenario, such as a regional earthquake, instead of a vague catch all product.
- Uses Facebook's social graph and location signal as the specific unlock competitors lack.
- States an illustrative target, such as 70 percent of affected users reached within two hours.
- Adds a guardrail metric so the team does not optimize check ins at the cost of accuracy.
Common mistakes
- Treats this as a generic feature list rather than one deep scenario.
- Ignores the moderation and misinformation load the product itself would create.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle false or malicious safety check ins?
- How would this work in a region with poor connectivity?
- Which teams inside Meta would you need to partner with to ship this?
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Learn the skill behind it
Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 7: AI UX and human oversight: design for a system that is wrong sometimes
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop