Product design question

Build a volunteer product for Facebook.

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What this question tests

Product sense for building a brand new use case (volunteering) on top of an existing social graph, and knowing what to reuse versus build new.

Clarify whether this is a standalone volunteering hub or a feature layered on Groups and Events, since Facebook already has both.
Segment users into people who want to give time and organizations or neighbors who need help, such as food banks or shelters.
Identify the core pain point: volunteers cannot find trustworthy nearby opportunities, and small organizations cannot reach or coordinate people at scale.
Prioritize discovery and trust over admin tooling, since matching is the hardest and most valuable part of the flow.
Propose a volunteering tab that surfaces geo tagged opportunities from verified organizations, with RSVP and hour logging.
Define success as completed volunteer signups per week and repeat volunteering rate, not just page views.

Reuses Facebook's Groups and Events graph for discovery instead of building a new social layer from scratch.
Names a specific underserved segment, for example students needing service hours or retirees with free time, instead of everyone.
Adds organization verification to prevent scam listings, since trust between strangers is the biggest risk in this space.
States an illustrative assumption, such as 5 percent of local Group members would volunteer if opportunities were two taps away.

Designing a generic app instead of leveraging Facebook's existing Groups, Events and Pages infrastructure.
Ignoring trust and safety, which is the hardest problem when connecting strangers to volunteer work.
Picking a vanity metric like app opens instead of completed volunteer actions.

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