Product design question
What do you dislike about a Facebook feature of your choice?
- Meta
- Product design
- Easy
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What this question tests
Tests critical product sense: identifying a genuine, specific flaw in a familiar product and reasoning through why it matters and how it could be improved.
How to approach it
- Pick a specific Facebook feature the candidate actually uses, such as News Feed ranking, Groups, or Events, rather than a vague complaint about the whole app.
- State the specific dislike concretely, such as feed ranking surfacing older, highly-commented posts over more recent relevant ones.
- Explain the user impact: this creates a feeling that the feed is stale or unpredictable, which reduces trust in the ranking system.
- Propose a fix direction, such as giving users more visible control over chronological versus ranked view, rather than just complaining.
- Acknowledge the trade off Facebook faces, such as ranked feeds driving more engagement even if some users find it less satisfying.
What a strong answer includes
- Names a specific, real feature and behavior rather than a generic complaint about ads or privacy that says nothing distinctive.
- Explains the underlying mechanism causing the dislike, such as how the ranking algorithm deprioritizes recency, showing real product understanding.
- Proposes a concrete improvement direction instead of stopping at the complaint.
- Acknowledges the business trade off Facebook is making, showing balanced thinking rather than one-sided criticism.
Common mistakes
- Giving a vague, generic complaint like 'too many ads' with no specific mechanism or example.
- Criticizing without proposing any direction for improvement.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you measure whether your proposed fix actually improves user satisfaction?
- What trade off would Facebook be making if it adopted your suggested change?
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Learn the skill behind it
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