Strategy question

You are the PM of notifications. How would you determine the trade offs between showing your friend’s fundraiser or the event they are going to / created?

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What this question tests

Prioritization framework for competing notification content types based on user value and platform health.

State the constraint: notifications are a scarce, high friction resource, so each one must earn its place.
Define the value of each: a fundraiser notification drives donations and social good, an event notification drives attendance and connection.
Segment by user history: someone who frequently donates should see fundraiser notifications more, event goers see event ones more.
Propose a relevance model that scores each notification by predicted engagement (click, donate, RSVP) for that specific user.
Add a frequency cap so one type does not crowd out the other for a given user.
Define success as overall notification engagement rate and unsubscribe or mute rate as a guardrail.

Frames this as a ranking problem, not a binary choice, since a good system serves the right type to the right user.
Uses personalization based on past behavior (donation history, RSVP history) rather than a single global rule.
Gives an illustrative number, e.g. assumes personalized ranking lifts overall notification CTR by 10 percent versus a fixed rule.
Names a guardrail metric, notification mute rate, to prevent over-sending regardless of type.

Treating this as a single global policy decision instead of a personalized ranking problem.
Ignoring notification fatigue and mute rate as a guardrail.
No mention of how to measure which type actually drives more value for a given user.

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