Meta·Product Manager·Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy
- As a PM at Meta, how would you define and measure the success of Instagram Live?
“I jumped straight to engagement metrics and kind of regretted it.”
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2377 interview notes · updated Jul 2026
“I jumped straight to engagement metrics and kind of regretted it.”
“This is a Bayes' theorem question and I almost answered it like a frequentist, which would've been completely wrong.”
“My first instinct was BFS and that was a mistake.”
“I went straight to features and the interviewer kind of just waited.”
“I knew the key insight was about direction after one full cycle, not just position.”
“I started with mean and variance which felt immediately wrong the second I said it out loud.”
“This one is deceptively wide.”
“I knew the formula but fumbled the plug-in step because I mixed up which rate went where.”
“The core merge logic clicked pretty fast for me, two pointers advancing through both lists, pick the smaller start, extend the end greedily.”
“Classic BFS level-order traversal, just grab the last node at each level.”