Build a Health and Wellbeing Product for Meta's Own Staff
Company: Meta
Role: Product Manager
Category: Product Design & Strategy
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Other
You are a product manager at Meta, and the product you are asked to design is for the company's own workforce: something that measurably improves employees' health. The prompt does not say whether "health" means physical health, mental health or both, so choosing a focus is part of the task. Explain why the company should invest in this, which employees you would build for, which problem you would solve for them, what you would build first, and how you would know it worked.
```hint Look for the uncovered stage
Map what a large employer already provides for health, such as insurance, checkups and access to doctors, then ask which part of staying healthy those benefits barely touch for someone with a demanding desk job.
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### Clarifying Questions
- Is the focus physical health, mental health or both, or is that my call?
- Which employees are in scope: office-based, remote and hybrid staff in every country, or one region to start?
- What is the company trying to achieve: lower burnout and attrition, fewer sick days, higher self-reported wellbeing, or lower healthcare spending?
- Is there a launch deadline, and may the product rely on outside partners such as gyms, activity providers or therapists?
### What a Strong Answer Covers
- Why the company benefits from healthier employees, with a business-level goal kept separate from product-level metrics.
- A segmentation of the workforce (for example by life stage, work pattern or location) and an explicit, reasoned choice of one segment.
- Pain points laid out across a journey from staying healthy to spotting a problem to getting care, checked against what existing benefits already solve.
- Two or three genuinely different solutions, prioritized by impact and effort, with a first version that fits the timeline.
- Employee trust (health data must never reach managers or performance reviews), plus success metrics with at least one guardrail.
### Follow-up Questions
- Your pilot is popular with employees who were already healthy and ignored by the stressed group you designed for. What would you change?
- How would you show the product reduced burnout, rather than coinciding with a quieter quarter?
- Managers ask for a dashboard of their team's wellbeing. Would you build it, and with what limits?
Overview: A product sense question asking how you would design a product that improves the health of Meta's own employees. It tests whether you choose between physical and mental health, segment the workforce, find gaps that existing benefits leave open, prioritize solutions, and protect employee privacy while measuring impact.