Behavioral question

What would you do to make sure Facebook employees do not feel lonely?

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What this question tests

Product thinking applied to an internal, employee-facing problem, requiring empathy and practical design sense.

Define the user: employees, especially remote or newly onboarded ones, who feel disconnected from colleagues day to day.
List pain points: limited casual interaction opportunities that used to happen naturally in an office, like hallway chats.
Prioritize lightweight, low pressure connection points, like optional virtual coffee chats matched by shared interests.
Design for opt-in, not mandatory participation, since forced socializing often backfires and increases discomfort.
Consider manager enablement: simple prompts or tools helping managers check in on team connectedness, not just individual output.
Define success as reported feelings of connectedness in employee surveys and voluntary participation rate in social features.

Names a specific vulnerable group, remote and newly onboarded employees, rather than treating loneliness as uniform across the workforce.
Designs for optional participation explicitly, showing awareness that forced socializing can increase discomfort rather than reduce it.
Proposes an interest-based matching mechanism, increasing genuine connection likelihood over random pairing.
Picks a survey-based connectedness metric alongside participation rate, capturing both feeling and behavior.

Proposing mandatory social events that could increase pressure rather than reduce loneliness.
Treating this as a pure engagement metrics problem without genuine empathy for the employee experience.

How would you measure if this genuinely reduced loneliness versus just adding another meeting?
How would you tailor this for different employee groups, like new hires versus tenured staff?