Product design question

Facebook wants to enter the house hunting business. If you were assigned to develop a product for the new business, what would you build?

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What this question tests

Product design leveraging platform-unique assets for a high-stakes, trust-sensitive vertical.

Define the user: someone searching for a rental or home, wanting more trustworthy signals than a typical listing site provides.
Identify Facebook's advantage: existing Marketplace listings, local Groups, and social graph trust signals like mutual friends or neighborhood connections.
Prioritize building a dedicated house-hunting hub that surfaces Marketplace and Groups listings with social trust overlays, rather than a from-scratch listings database.
Design a key feature: a 'neighborhood insider' layer showing local group activity, reviews, and community sentiment about an area.
Address the biggest risk directly: fraud and fake listings, requiring identity verification for anyone posting a housing listing.
Define success metrics: search-to-contact conversion rate and fraud/scam report rate.

Builds on Facebook's actual existing assets (Marketplace, Groups) rather than proposing a from-scratch Zillow clone.
Proposes a specific trust feature, like showing mutual friends or local group membership overlap with a landlord.
Gives an illustrative metric, e.g. 20% higher contact rate on listings with visible social trust signals, marked as an assumption.
Names fraud prevention as a first-class design requirement given housing scams are common and high-stakes.

Proposing a generic listings site that ignores Facebook's unique social graph advantage.
Underestimating fraud risk in a high-value, high-stakes vertical like housing.

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