Product design question
How would you design a Facebook product for Christmas?
- Meta
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Basic product design for a seasonal, time-boxed use case, testing whether the candidate can scope a lightweight feature rather than a permanent platform change.
How to approach it
- Identify the seasonal behavior Facebook already sees around Christmas: increased family interaction, gift posts, nostalgia-driven content.
- Propose a focused, time-boxed feature: a 'Christmas Memories' recap surfacing past holiday photos with the same friends and family, encouraging shares.
- Tie it to Facebook's business goal: a seasonal spike in content creation and engagement, increasing ad inventory during the high-value holiday retail season.
- Keep scope tight: a temporary feed card or notification active only for a few weeks, avoiding permanent investment for a seasonal moment.
- Define success as share and comment rate on recap posts, and incremental time spent during the campaign window versus a control group.
What a strong answer includes
- Explicitly scopes the feature as temporary and seasonal, matching the nature of a Christmas product.
- Ties the idea to Facebook's actual monetization angle, engagement spikes during the highest-value ad season.
- Builds on a proven existing pattern, memories and nostalgia features, rather than something unrelated to real user behavior.
Common mistakes
- Proposing something unrelated to genuine holiday behavior, like a generic new messaging feature with no seasonal tie-in.
- Not weighing engineering cost against seasonal value, over-investing in a feature only useful for a few weeks.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you make this feel personal rather than generic across hundreds of millions of users?
- How would you measure whether this actually drove incremental engagement versus just relocating it?
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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
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop