Meta·Product Manager·Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy
- How would you increase engagement on Instagram?
“Broad enough that you can go a dozen directions and still feel lost.”
FAANG / Big Tech
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2377 interview notes · updated Jul 2026
“Broad enough that you can go a dozen directions and still feel lost.”
“I started with the Model layer and listed out the obvious stuff: tracks, playlists, playback state.”
“This is the core prompt and it's deceptively wide.”
“This sounds like a softball but it absolutely is not.”
“Seemed straightforward at first and I almost rushed through it.”
“Pretty open-ended.”
“This is the core question and it goes way deeper than you'd expect.”
“I knew the answer but fumbled the delivery.”
“BFS was the obvious move and I knew that immediately, but I fumbled around with how to reconstruct the actual path coordinates instead of just returning a boolean or a length.”
“Pretty open-ended so I just started rambling about component lifecycles and hooks.”