The interviewer had many years of experience and had a friendly, easygoing demeanor. Overall I felt our conversation flowed pretty smoothly, back and forth, and I was able to quickly follow up on a lot of the points he raised and give balanced, two-sided answers. Structurally I stuck to the standard framework (clarify, goal, pros/cons, hypothesis, data points, ...). Maybe because this was L5, the interviewer's questions were deliberately broad, with a lot of room for me to make my own trade-offs.
Case (since I interviewed mid-year, I don't remember it that clearly anymore, so I'm reconstructing the context as best I can — if anyone else has gotten this case, please feel free to add more. It's a pretty niche question.)
Meta launches a new chat app in Europe, focused on the B2C space. Businesses can use the chat tool to talk to customers for customer service, and Meta monetizes it by charging businesses a monthly subscription. (I spent some time clarifying this setup with the interviewer, because I'd genuinely never seen a case like this geography-wise — I thought it was a pretty unusual question...)
From what I remember, roughly the questions were:
- How to justify this product (tie it back to Meta's vision and goals).
- How to measure success (building on the goal we'd just discussed, define success metrics and guardrails. Since it's a service chat product, I talked about metrics related to service resolution quality and subscription revenue: # of businesses with at least one chat, # of chats started by customers per day, # of chats resolved, # of messages per chat, monthly subscription revenue, # of companies subscribed. Guardrails: long-duration chats, % of chats not resolved — he followed up asking what counts as "not resolved," and I gave two approaches: either look at whether the conversation sentiment was positive, or directly survey the customer after the conversation.)
- How to test it after launch (since this is at the business level, the sample size is small, so I said we could use causal inference, DiD, etc. — this question got moved past pretty quickly).
- The one that stuck with me most was the last question. He asked me how I'd show results on a one-page PPT for the C-suite, and first showed me a slide with a spaghetti chart on it — I remember it was some metric's trend across different regions — and asked me to critique the slide. (I first explained what the slide was trying to communicate, said a few things I liked about it, and then went for it: I said the spaghetti chart was too messy, the y-axis was compressed because of the different scales, so it was hard to make out the trend for smaller countries; also the metric was too narrow and couldn't show the full picture. I said a few other things I've since forgotten.) Then he asked how I would organize the page instead, and what metrics I'd use. (Since this is a new app and a B2B product, I felt that for a C-suite audience you'd want to emphasize high-level metrics that highlight early-stage growth and profitability. So I picked monthly subscribed companies w/ MoM%, monthly subscription revenue w/ MoM%, and ROI.)
Has anyone else gotten this same case? Could you help check whether my understanding of the prompt was right — did I misunderstand something???
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