FAANG Specific Technology and Culture Questions
Understanding of what makes each FAANG company's technical challenges and culture unique. Google focuses on scale and distributed systems. Amazon emphasizes customer obsession and operational excellence. Meta focuses on mobile and infrastructure. Apple emphasizes hardware-software integration and user experience. Netflix is known for microservices and freedom and responsibility culture. Microsoft has become increasingly cloud-focused with Azure. Understanding each company's technical philosophy helps you source engineers who align with that culture.
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As a director-level PM you must choose between forming a central platform team or embedding platform engineers in product squads. Using FAANG examples, evaluate long-term impacts on hiring, ownership, SLAs, cost, and developer experience. Recommend one approach with a 2-year roadmap and justification.
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Compare the trade-offs between prioritizing aggressive experimentation (Google/Meta-style) versus maintaining a highly curated and polished product (Apple-style). As a PM, how would you decide which approach fits your product, and list three signals that would make you switch approaches.
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Netflix promotes microservices architecture and a 'freedom and responsibility' culture. As a PM, how would you balance granting engineering teams autonomy with the need for consistent product behavior and coherent UX across many microservices?
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Apple teams often prioritize polished UX over rapid A/B experimentation. As a PM deciding between an A/B test that could improve conversion but add UI complexity versus a polished single experience, describe how you would decide and what stakeholders you would involve.
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A privacy constraint emerges that prevents collection of a telemetry signal your team planned to use for a Meta-style ad personalization feature. As a PM, propose three alternative measurement strategies to evaluate feature effectiveness without that telemetry, and explain pros and cons for each.
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