Product design question
What Facebook products can be improved by showing location information? How?
- Meta
- Product design
- Hard
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What this question tests
Product sense for applying a specific data type, location, across a portfolio, identifying the highest value use cases first.
How to approach it
- List candidate products, such as Marketplace, Events, Groups, and News Feed, that could use location data meaningfully.
- Evaluate each by user value, for example Marketplace showing distance and local pickup relevance is a clear high value case.
- Prioritize one or two use cases to go deep on, likely Marketplace and Events since location directly affects their core function.
- Explain the mechanism, like filtering and ranking listings or events by proximity and travel time.
- Address privacy carefully, since location is sensitive, proposing opt in and clear controls.
What a strong answer includes
- Prioritizes specific products, Marketplace and Events, where location is core to the use case, rather than listing every product vaguely.
- Explains the concrete mechanism, like proximity based ranking, rather than a generic use location data statement.
- Addresses privacy explicitly, since unprompted use of location data is a known trust risk for Meta.
Common mistakes
- Listing many products without prioritizing which ones benefit most from location.
- Ignoring privacy concerns despite location being especially sensitive data.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you handle users who decline to share location?
- How would you measure whether location improved relevance?
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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