Product design question

How would you improve video calling on Messenger?

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What this question tests

Product improvement for a core communication feature, identifying and fixing a specific, common quality or usability issue.

Identify a specific video calling pain point, such as call quality degradation on poor networks or difficulty adding participants mid call.
Prioritize the highest impact fix, likely adaptive quality that gracefully degrades video before dropping the call entirely on weak connections.
Propose a concrete improvement, such as automatic bandwidth detection with a fallback to audio only rather than a frozen or dropped call.
Explain why this matters, since call reliability directly affects whether users trust Messenger for important calls.
Define a success metric, such as reduced call drop rate or increased average call duration.

Names a specific, common pain point, call quality on poor networks, rather than a vague make calling better answer.
Proposes a concrete technical mechanism, adaptive bandwidth fallback, showing real understanding of the underlying problem.
Ties the fix to measurable reliability outcomes like call drop rate reduction.

Proposing cosmetic UI changes instead of addressing core call reliability and quality.
Ignoring network variability as the root cause of most video calling complaints.

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