How would you grow key product metrics?
Company: Meta
Role: Product Analyst
Category: Analytics & Experimentation
Difficulty: easy
Interview Round: Onsite
You are interviewing for a **Product Growth Analyst** role. Answer the following **product growth / analytics case prompts**. For each prompt, clearly state:
- **Clarifying questions** (what you must know about the product, user, surface, and metric definition).
- **What data you’d look at** (events/tables, segments, funnels, cohorts).
- **How you’d generate ideas** (levers, hypotheses) and **prioritize** them.
- Pick **one idea** and describe how you’d **test/validate** it end-to-end (experiment or quasi-experiment), including:
- Primary metric + diagnostic metrics + guardrails
- Unit of randomization, duration, power/MDE considerations
- Risks: confounding, novelty, seasonality, network effects, logging gaps
### Prompt A — Improve Instagram Story Viewers
“How would you improve *Instagram story viewer*?”
- Define the target metric (e.g., viewers per story, total story views, story viewer DAU/WAU).
- Consider both **viewer-side** and **creator-side** levers.
### Prompt B — Double Boosted Post MAU in 6 Months
“Double *Boosted Post MAU* in 6 months.”
- Explicitly define what “Boosted Post MAU” means (e.g., unique creators who boost a post monthly, or unique users who engage with boosted posts).
- Provide a 6-month plan and how you’d measure progress.
### Prompt C — Grow Reels Creators
“Grow Reels creator.”
- Define creator funnel stages (e.g., eligible → creates first reel → publishes → gets distribution → returns to create again).
- Propose interventions and measurement.
### Prompt D — Increase Logged-in Users on Mobile FB App
“Increase logged-in users on the mobile Facebook app (focus on login flow, password reset, etc.).”
- Identify where the login funnel breaks and propose fixes.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates product growth analytics and experimentation skills, including metric definition, funnel analysis, segmentation, hypothesis generation, prioritization, and end-to-end test design across scenarios such as story viewers, boosted-post MAU, short-form video creators, and mobile app login funnels.