Top Meta Software Engineer System Design & Product Architecture Interview Questions 2024

I’ll cut to the chase, my names Evan, I am a former Meta Staff engineer and interviewer. I’ve been putting together breakdowns of common problems asked across the top FAANGs.

When it comes to the Meta design interview, they let you choose between a System Design interview and a Product Architecture interview. Not sure what the difference is? Checkout this blog post I wrote on the topic.

But anyway, I know what you’re here for. In my experience, here are the questions that are most commonly asked for each interview type.

Read the linked breakdowns, definitely, but these aren’t interviews where you can just memorize an answer key, so don’t treat them as such. Use them to learn the underlying concepts and frameworks for tackling these types of problems.

System Design

1. Design an Ad Click Aggregator
2. Design a Top K Service
3. Design Memcached
4. Design FB Live Comments
5. Design TAO
6. Design Uber
7. Design Ticketmaster
8. Design a Distributed Job Scheduler

Product Architecture

1. Design Ticketmaster
2. Design Uber
3. Design IG Auction
4. Design Dropbox
5. Design Newsfeed
6. Design Facebook i18n
7. Design Just the UX and APIs for Newsfeed
8. Design Leetcode
9. Design Messenger