Product design question
How should Facebook help people with relocation?
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Product design for a real life transition moment, connecting a social platform's data to a practical service.
How to approach it
- Define the user: people relocating for a new job, school, or life change, needing local knowledge in an unfamiliar city.
- List pain points: finding trustworthy local recommendations for housing areas, schools, and community groups.
- Identify Facebook's advantage: existing Groups and Marketplace data on local communities that competitors lack.
- Prioritize a relocation hub that surfaces relevant local Groups, Marketplace housing listings, and community events based on the destination city.
- Design for trust: highlighting groups with real local activity rather than generic city pages with low engagement.
- Define success as engagement with the relocation hub and downstream group joins or Marketplace interactions in the new city.
What a strong answer includes
- Grounds the idea in a real Facebook asset, existing local Groups and Marketplace data, rather than proposing an unrelated new feature.
- Names a specific relocation pain point, finding trustworthy local community info, rather than a vague 'help people move'.
- Addresses trust explicitly, proposing to surface genuinely active groups over generic low engagement city pages.
- Picks a concrete downstream metric, group joins and Marketplace interactions, to prove real value beyond a one-time hub visit.
Common mistakes
- Proposing a feature unrelated to Facebook's actual data assets, like building a moving logistics service from scratch.
- Ignoring the trust problem with low-quality or inactive local groups and pages.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you rank which local groups to surface first?
- How would you measure if this actually helped someone settle into a new city?
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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
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