Product design question

Design a volunteering product for the Social Goods team at Facebook.

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What this question tests

Whether the candidate can design a mission-driven feature that still drives measurable platform engagement, not just goodwill.

Define the user: people wanting to volunteer locally, and nonprofits or community organizers needing to find willing volunteers.
Name pain points: volunteers don't know what opportunities exist nearby, and organizers struggle to reach and coordinate enough people using scattered tools like flyers or email lists.
Prioritize matching and discovery: surface local volunteer opportunities through existing Facebook Groups and Events, filtered by cause and location.
Propose a lightweight coordination flow: sign-up, reminders, and a simple post-event confirmation so organizers can track actual turnout.
Define success as completed volunteer sign-ups that convert to actual attendance, and repeat volunteering rate over a few months.

Leverages Facebook's existing Groups and Events infrastructure for discovery, rather than building a standalone volunteer marketplace from scratch.
Distinguishes sign-up from actual attendance as the real success metric, since no-shows are a known problem in volunteering.
Proposes lightweight organizer tools (reminders, confirmations) addressing the real coordination pain point nonprofits face.

Measuring success by sign-ups alone without checking actual attendance or repeat participation.
Ignoring the organizer side of the marketplace and focusing only on volunteer discovery.

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