Product design question

Facebook is thinking of entering the childcare space. You've been asked to think about what we should build. What would you propose?

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What this question tests

Whether the candidate can evaluate a new market entry against the parent company's real assets, rather than designing a generic childcare app.

Clarify the opportunity type: a marketplace connecting parents with caregivers, a community and resource hub, or workplace-adjacent childcare benefits.
Identify the target user: working parents, likely a segment already active in Facebook Groups for local parenting communities.
Assess Meta's real advantage: existing local parenting Groups and Marketplace infrastructure, rather than building trust and supply from zero like Care.com did.
Propose a focused entry: a trusted caregiver marketplace layered on Facebook Groups and Marketplace, with background-check verification as the trust layer.
Define success as caregiver-parent match rate and repeat booking rate, and name the key risk, safety and liability around childcare matching.

Grounds the recommendation in Meta's existing local Groups and Marketplace assets rather than proposing a standalone new product.
Names safety and liability as the central risk for this category specifically, since it involves children directly.
Proposes background-check verification as the concrete trust mechanism, addressing the biggest barrier to marketplace adoption.

Proposing a generic childcare app without connecting it to Meta's specific existing assets.
Underestimating safety, liability, and trust as the dominant barrier in this category.

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