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“Your page has been scheduled for deletion” Facebook Scam

Last Updated on March 18, 2024

We reported Facebook phishing attacks back in 2020, but scammers keep upgrading their tactics and tricks to steal your personal data and access to your account. Several Facebook fan pages and public groups called “Appeal a Page Policy Violation” appeared recently and are trying to attack Facebook users. Check how the scam works and how to protect yourself from it:

“Your page has been scheduled for deletion”

1. Hackers send fan page owners this message, claiming that the page “has been scheduled for deletion” for violating the Community Standards rules. Then they ask users to click on a link immediately to “cancel the deletion,” or the page will be deleted.

Sample Facebook Page Deletion Message

• Hello, Your Page has been scheduled for deletion because it goes against our Community Standards on Intellectual Property. If you want to cancel the deletion of your page or retrieve any of the content or information you’ve added, please submit a report on link below. Otherwise, Facebook will start deleting your page in 2 days. After 2 April 2021, you won’t be able to access the account or any of the content you’ve added. HTTP[]s://www.facebook.com/495823331798835 Thanks, FacebookTeam
• dear admin, your fanpage was reported by someone that some of your posts violate our community standards on intellectual property rights.we confirm that this fanpage is in violation and have scheduled it to be deleted from facebook within 24 hours.for more information on this issue or if you think this is a mistake. please read the community standards and contact us to confirm that your fanpage does not violate: https:// meta – 11 – 2024[.]com .thank you for reading this message. sincerely, meta support team.

2. The link leads to a Facebook note page entitled “Appeal a Page Policy Violation.” On this page, some details of the “case” are shown, and this note prompts users to file complaints through another link. The link seems legitimate and leads to a web page that looks like a real Facebook page. (It’s, indeed, a fake one!)

Appeal a Page Policy Violation (g) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT ■ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021 • $ Report #: 1003457673493762 Rights Owner: Universal Publishing Group Address: 3130 Villa Ave, Portland, ME, USA. Copyrighted Work: Music If you think this is a mistake we provided you an appeal form below: HTTP[s]: //facebook.com/copyright/100921299743 Note: If we do not receive an appeal within 24 hours from your account we have to respect the decision mentioned above! Thank you for your cooperation. 3. We found that hackers use an external link ( bit.ly) to redirect you to the fake Facebook helpdesk page as shown below. You will find that all the buttons and links on this page don’t work except for the “Appeal” button.

4. If you click on the “Appeal” button, a form will unfold and ask you to fill in information like login email addresses, phone numbers, names, and page names . The information you submit will end up in scammers/hackers’ hands. With that, they can contact you, pretending to be Facebook officials, and trick you into sending your login credentials. They can thus get access to your Facebook account along with your fan pages . Or, they can use the information for other scams such as identity theft.

Sample Facebook Page Deletion Message with a Linkpop URL

Recently, we found that scammers are also utilizing linkpop.com to host such Facebook/Meta page deletion scams:

• important notification: your facebook page is scheduled for permanent deletion due to a post that has infringed upon our trademark rights. we have reached this decision after a thorough review and in accordance with our intellectual property protection policies. if you believe this to be a misunderstanding, we kindly request you to file a complaint seeking the reinstatement of your page prior to its removal from facebook. request for review: https://linkpop[.]com/protectcopyrightsid-www-com we understand that this situation may impact your ongoing business operations. however, please be informed that if we do not receive a complaint from you, our decision will be final. your cooperation and understanding are greatly appreciated. should you have any inquiries or apprehensions, please feel free to reach out to us. sincerely, facebook support team © noreply facebook. meta platforms, inc., attention: community support, 1 facebook way, menlo park, ca 94025

While linkpop.com itself is a legitimate platform, scammers make it their tool to spread phishing links that, again, will take you to a copycat Meta support page where you could end up exposing all your credentials. Be careful!

How to avoid “Your page has been scheduled for deletion” scams

• Pay attention to the web address . A legitimate Facebook official page should always start with facebook.com/ .
• Turn to the Facebook official directly for help. Don’t use links others provide you; search for Facebook Help Center and go to the site yourself instead.
• Be smart with your personal information. Please don’t share it online!
• Never click on links from unknown resources. Check before you take any action!

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Meta has a new scam ads problem down under

Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has instigated proceedings against Facebook owner Meta for allowing the spread of scam ads on its platforms and — it alleges — not taking sufficient steps to tackle the issue.

The watchdog said today that it’s seeking “declarations, injunctions, penalties, costs and other orders” against the social media giant, accusing it of engaging in “false, misleading or deceptive conduct” by publishing scam advertisements featuring prominent Australian public figures — activity the ACCC asserts breaches local consumer laws.

Specifically, it alleges Meta’s conduct is in breach of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) or the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act (ASIC Act).

The regulator’s accusation extends to alleging that Meta “aided and abetted or was knowingly concerned in false or misleading conduct and representations by the advertisers” (i.e. who used its platform to net victims for their scams).

Meta refutes the accusations, saying it already uses technology to try to detect and block scams.

In a statement on the ACCC’s action attributed to a company spokesperson, the tech giant said:

We don’t want ads seeking to scam people out of money or mislead people on Facebook — they violate our policies and are not good for our community. We use technology to detect and block scam ads and work to get ahead of scammers’ attempts to evade our detection systems. We’ve cooperated with the ACCC’s investigation into this matter to date. We will review the recent filing by the ACCC and intend to defend the proceedings. We are unable to further comment on the detail of the case as it is before the Federal Court.

The ACCC says the scam ads it’s taking action over promoted cryptocurrency investment or money-making schemes via Meta’s platforms, and featured people likely to be well known to Australians — such as businessman Dick Smith, TV presenter David Koch and former NSW Premier Mike Baird — who could be seen in the ads apparently endorsing the schemes, yet, in actuality, these public figures had never approved or endorsed the messaging.

“The ads contained links which took Facebook users to a fake media article that included quotes attributed to the public figure featured in the ad endorsing a cryptocurrency or money-making scheme. Users were then invited to sign up and were subsequently contacted by scammers who used high pressure tactics, such as repeated phone calls, to convince users to deposit funds into the fake scheme,” it explains.

The ACCC also notes that celebrity endorsement cryptocurrency scam ads continued being displayed on Facebook in Australia after public figures elsewhere around the world had complained that their names and images had been used in similar ads without their consent.

A similar complaint was pressed against Facebook in the U.K. back in 2018 — when local consumer advice personality Martin Lewis sued the platform for defamation over a flood of scams ads bearing his image and name without his permission which he said were being used to trick and defraud U.K. consumers.

Lewis ended that litigation against Facebook in 2019 after it agreed to make some changes to its platform locally — including adding a button to report scam ads. (A Facebook misleading and scam ads reporting form was subsequently also made available by the company in Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand.)

Despite ending his suit, Lewis did not end his campaigning against scam ads — most recently (successfully) pressing for draft U.K. Online Safety legislation, which was introduced to the country’s parliament yesterday , to be extended to bring scam ads into scope . That incoming regime will include fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover to encourage tech giants to comply.

Tech CEOs to face faster criminal liability under UK online safety law

Australia, meanwhile, legislated on Online Safety  last year — with its own similarly titled Act coming into force this January. However its online safety legislation is narrower, focused on other types of abusive content (such as CSAM, terrorism, cyberbullying etc.).

For pursuing online platforms on the scam ads issue, the country is relying on existing consumer and financial investment rules.

It remains to be seen whether these laws are specific enough to be successfully used to force a change in Meta’s conduct around ads. 

The adtech giant makes its money from profiling people to serve targeted advertising. Any limits on how its ad business can operate — such as requirements to manually review all ads before posting and/or limitations on its ability to target ads at eyeballs — would significantly ramp up its costs and threat its ability to generate so much revenue.

So it’s notable that the ACCC does appear to be eyeing orders for such types of measures — suggesting, for example, that Meta’s targeting tools are exacerbating the scam ads issue by enabling scammers to target people who are “most likely to click on the link in an ad “– assuming, of course, that it prevails in its proceeding.

That looks like the most interesting element of the proceeding — if the ACCC ends up digging into how scammers are able to use Facebook’s ad tools to amplify the effectiveness of their scams.

In Europe, wider moves are already afoot to put legal limits on platforms’ ability to run tracking ads . While Meta has been warning its investors of “ regulatory headwinds ” impacting its ad business.

“The essence of our case is that Meta is responsible for these ads that it publishes on its platform,” ACCC chair Rod Sims wrote in a statement. “It is a key part of Meta’s business to enable advertisers to target users who are most likely to click on the link in an ad to visit the ad’s landing page, using Facebook algorithms. Those visits to landing pages from ads generate substantial revenue for Facebook.

“We allege that the technology of Meta enabled these ads to be targeted to users most likely to engage with the ads, that Meta assured its users it would detect and prevent spam and promote safety on Facebook but it failed to prevent the publication of other similar celebrity endorsement cryptocurrency scam ads on its pages or warn users.”

“Meta should have been doing more to detect and then remove false or misleading ads on Facebook, to prevent consumers from falling victim to ruthless scammers,” he added.

Sims also pointed out that in addition to “untold losses to consumers” — in one case the ACCC said a consumer lost $650,000 to a scam advertised as an investment opportunity on Facebook — scam ads damage the reputation of public figures falsely associated with them, reiterating that Meta has failed to take “sufficient steps” to stop fake ads featuring public figures, even after the public figures had reported to it that their name and image were being featured in celebrity endorsement cryptocurrency scam ads.

The idea that a technology platform which — over a full decade ago! — was able to deploy facial recognition on its platform for autotagging users in photo uploads would be unable to successfully apply the same sort of tech to automatically flag-for-review all ads bearing certain names and faces — after, or even before, a public figure reported a concern — looks highly questionable.

And while Meta claims that “cloaking” is one technique spammers use to try to work around its review processes — aka, presenting different content to Facebook users and Facebook crawlers or tools — that is also the exact kind of technology problem you’d imagine a tech giant would be able to deploy its vast engineering resources to crack.

It’s certainly telling that in the four or so years since Lewis’ scam ads litigation the exact same playbook can apparently still be be successfully deployed by scammers through Facebook’s platform all around the world. If this is success, one has to wonder what Meta failing would look like.

How many scam ads Meta is “successfully” removing is not at all clear.

In a section of its self-styled Community Standard Enforcement Report — that’s labelled “spam” (NB: not scams; and also where spam is functioning as a catch all [and self-defined] term, meaning it does not exclusively refer to problematic stuff that appears in ads specifically, let alone scams in ads) — Meta writes that “1.2 billion” is the figure for “content actioned on spam” in the three months of Q4.

This figure is all but meaningless since Meta gets to define what constitutes a single piece of “spam” for the purposes of its “transparency” reporting, as the company itself concedes in the report — hence the tortuous phrasing (“content actioned on spam”, not even pieces, or indeed ads, photos, posts etc.). It also of course gets to define what spam is in this context — apparently bundling scam ads into that far fuzzier category too.

Furthermore, in the report, Meta doesn’t even write that 1.2 billion refers to 1.2 billion pieces of spam. (In any case, as noted above, a “piece” of spam — in Meta’s universe — might actually refer to several pieces of content which it has decided to bundle up and count as one unit for public reporting purposes, such as multiple photos and text posts, as it also discloses in the report, which essentially means it can use a show of transparency to further obscure what’s actually happening on its platform.)

There’s more too: The term “actioned” — yet another self-serving bit of Meta nomenclature — does not necessarily mean that the (in this case “ spam “) content got removed. That’s because it bundles a number of other potential responses, such as screening content with a warning or disabling accounts.

So — tl;dr — as ever with big adtech, it’s impossible to trust platforms’ self reported actions around the content they’re busy amplifying and monetizing — absent explicit legislative requirements mandating exactly what data points they must disclose to regulators in order to ensure actual oversight and genuine accountability.

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Scammers Posing as Meta are Emailing Facebook Page Admins Claiming Their Page Uploaded Content That Violates Guidelines

NOTE: This article is about a scam where the scammers sent emails to random email addresses claiming to be Meta. For our article on the scam where they send messages on Facebook from Pages pretending to be Meta Business Suite, Meta Security, or some alert notification see this article: Someone is Messaging Facebook Pages Claiming They Have Violated Facebook’s Content Policy – It Is A Scam

Scammers are sending phishing emails out scaring small business owners and then stealing their Facebook login information and Facebook / Meta is not taking action on this latest scam. We’ve already had several clients get these emails as have several colleagues. Hopefully this article keeps you from falling prey to this until Meta decides to actually take action and protect users.

If you are getting an email with a link that takes you to a Facebook Page / account called “Restriction Alert” or “Restriction Details” it is a scam. DO NOT TAKE ANY ACTION THE HACKERS WILL TAKE OVER YOUR ACCOUNT .

There are a few versions of this scam going around. The first version claims the emails are coming from Facebook (not Meta) and specifiy copyright infringement. Here is how one of those reads:

And here is how another one, this time claiming to be from Meta, reads:

These scams look legitimate because they use a post on a Facebook Page as the landing page for the email phishing scam, which then redirects users to another site. Shoutout to Gyi Tsakalakis for posting these screenshots on Twitter.

These Facebook scams are no joke. pic.twitter.com/NtfhJyZhEV — Gyi Tsakalakis (@gyitsakalakis) April 21, 2022

All of the Pages / hacked accounts used in this scam are titled “Restriction Alert” or have the name “Restriction Details” most of them we have seen so far have the logo / profile photo of a blue-ish colored shield. The pages often have no other posts, no cover photo, and the post you are given a link to can’t be found from their main page. This is likely why when reported to Facebook neither the page or the posts are taken down. The accounts will have a mixture of old posts and photos from the actual account owner and newer posts about the scam.

Screenshot of a Restriction Alert scam Page on Facebook:

Screenshots from a Restriction Details hacked scam account on Facebook:

The scammers use a multitude of hosting / domain registrar resources. For example the above mentioned scam page uses Namecheap for the domain registrar and for hosting using the domain “502619802.com”. The scam account that comes from a hacked user is using Google’s Firebase Hosting for the hosting on the top level domain “Web.app” which is owned by Google. There are likely dozens more variations floating around out there, designed to mitigate risk when Meta’s security team actually starts to care about this or when a hosting / domain regsitrar catches wind of their system being used for the scam.

Facebook is not the hottest social media website right now, but it is still a main staple of nearly every business on the planet. That is a bad combination because it often means less attention is being paid to Facebook than a newer platform like TikTok – which means when an email like this comes in it might get a less logical review and a more emotional response from whoever runs the social media for a business / brand.

When our clients get the email they freak out and almost immeditely try to take action, but thankfully all of them have asked us first and we have been able to stop them.

For those who are not aware, Facebook has a “Quality” section for each page where issues are likely to be reported. You can find it at this URL : https://www.facebook.com/[page]/quality

If there are content issues with your page they should be listed here.

Facebook / Meta is also likely to sign you out of your account and force you to sign back in if you have a copyright infringement claim against your Page.

This is not the first scam similar to this using Facebook Pages to appear authentically as Facebook or Meta in some fashion and then using that to phish for passwords either throuh email or via Messenger messages to the Page. They go back at least to 2019 when I wrote about a different version of this scam and might be even older.

Here’s my advice to avoid getting scammed out of your Facebook / Meta login: 1. Never click on a link from an email or message to your Page / account claiming to be Facebook or Meta.

2. If you have a Facebook Management agency , Facebook Ads agency , or social media consultant you trust forward any messages to them and ask if they are authentic.

3. Check your Page, Business Manager, or Ads Manager for any notes from Meta or Facebook staff directly. When it comes to Pages these issues are almost always located inside of the Page Quality section.

4. You should also be aware that Facebook has atrocious support for all users, so be on gaurd about any claims from someone from Meta or Facebook trying to be proactive about any issue. Never ever give someone your user name and password, even if you think that person is from Facebook.

What happens if you have already fallen prey to this scam? 1. The hackers stole your personal account, Page(s), Group(s), and Ad Account already.

2. To evade Facebook’s security measures they might have already changed your profile photo, deleted all of your photos and posts, unfriended your friends, changed your email, changed your phone number, and changed your password on your personal account.

At least one of these is typically needed for Facebook’s ‘hacked’ security team to alow you back in. The hacked security team is capable of reversing most or all of these issues, but it is at best sporadic. It is highly possible that they reset your account but do not allow you to login to your account. When this happens it becomes impossible to regain your account.

3. Hackers might try and blackmail you to regain access to your account / page / ad account etc… especially if they see value in some of them. The price will be high, we have seen requests up to $50,000 USD. Do not ever pay for a Facebook account or page that has been hacked as the hacker is likely just scamming you a second time.

4. Hackers will either use your account to spam your friends (if they didn’t unfriend them), add it to their scam operation (see above), or sell your account and assets on a marketplace somewhere. It will be nearly impossible to find these since the names / content has likely been changed to something completely different.

5. Scammers on Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit will claim they can hack your account and get you back in. This is a tier 2 scam that builds on the first one, often ran by the same scamemrs or those who are intimately familiar with the first group of scammers tactics.

If you fell prey to the “Restriction Alert” Page scam and your account has been hacked your best and only real option is to report this to Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/hacked

Wondering how prolific this scam is? Here are all of the hacked pages/accounts Facebook would show me for each search.

There a lot more that are for one reason or another hidden from my account’s view, but hopefully this shows the scale of the problem is rather large.

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Meta behavioral interview (questions, method, and prep)

If you’re applying for a tech role at Meta, the behavioral round, sometimes called the "leadership interview," is one of the main types of interviews you’re going to need to crack. As the questions may not seem difficult when compared with their technical counterparts, candidates frequently overlook them. 

However, these open-ended questions are important for interviewers to find out if you’re a good fit for Meta. So you’ll want to prepare for these questions and use them to distinguish yourself from other candidates.

To help you, we’ve created this interview prep guide to give you everything you need to know to prepare for Meta’s behavioral interview, including example questions, how to answer, and a practice plan to make sure you land your dream job at Meta.

Here’s a brief overview of what we’ll cover:

• What is a behavioral interview at Meta?
• Meta behavioral interview questions
• How to answer Meta behavioral interview questions
• How to prepare for a Meta behavioral interview

Click here to practice 1-on-1 with Meta ex-interviewers

1. what is a behavioral interview at meta.

Meta (formerly Facebook) uses behavioral interviews to assess job candidates based on their past experiences. These  questions typically start with “Tell me about a time you…” and focus on soft skills such as: leadership, communication, teamwork, problem solving, etc.  

To round out your preparation, we've also included some resume, HR, and hypothetical questions such as "what are your strengths and weaknesses?" or "how would you...?" in this article. As these are real questions that have been reported by past candidates, we want to make sure you're ready for anything.

These questions will appear at every step of the interview process, from the initial recruiter phone screen, through the hiring manager, and all the way through to the onsite interviews. They may even appear as icebreakers or transition questions during system design or coding interviews. The frequency and type of behavioral questions will vary, but be prepared for many, especially if you're applying for a leadership role.

For more information on the process for a specific role, consult one of our comprehensive interview guides below: 

• Meta PM (product manager)
• Meta rotational product manager
• Meta product marketing manager
• Meta product designer
• Meta program manager
• Meta technical program manager
• Meta software engineer
• Meta engineering manager
• Meta data engineer
• Meta production engineer
• Meta front end engineer
• Meta machine learning engineer
• Meta data scientist
• Meta account manager

Now, what will your interviewers be looking out for?

1.1 Meta's core values

To get an idea of the qualities your interviewers are looking for during behavioral interviews, review Meta's six core values : 

"1. Move fast

We build and learn faster than anyone else. Acting with urgency, we don’t wait until next week to do something we could do today. We continuously work to speed up our highest priority initiatives by methodically removing barriers that get in the way. It’s about moving fast in one direction together–as a company and as individuals.

2. Focus on long-term impact

We emphasize long-term thinking that encourages us to extend the timeline for the impact we have, rather than optimizing for near-term wins. We should take on the challenges that will be the most impactful, even if the full results won’t be seen for years.

3. Build awesome things

We push ourselves to ship things that are not just good, but also awe-inspiring. We’ve already built products that are useful to billions of people. In our next chapter, we’ll focus more on inspiring them as well, in everything we do.

4. Live in the future

Let’s build the future of work that we want, with an in-person focus designed to support a strong, valuable experience for our people who have chosen to work from the office, and a thoughtful and intentional approach to where we invest in remote work. This also means being early adopters of the future products we build to help people feel present together wherever they are.

5. Be direct and respect your colleagues

We create a culture where we are straightforward and willing to have hard conversations with each other. At the same time, we are also respectful and when we share feedback, we recognize that many of the world’s leading experts work here.

6. Meta, metamates, me

We are stewards of our company and our mission. We have a sense of responsibility for our collective success and to each other as teammates. It’s about taking care of our company and each other."

While practicing your responses to the example questions in this article, be sure to choose stories that reflect these values. 

In the next section, we’ll take a deep dive into some of Meta’s top behavioral questions so that you can get an idea of what you’re up against.

2. Meta behavioral interview questions

Now that you’ve gotten an idea of what to expect during the Meta interview process , let’s jump into some example questions. 

To help you prepare strategically for your job interview, we have used Glassdoor data to identify the real questions asked in different Meta interviews. The questions we’ve chosen come from our research on five Meta tech roles: product manager , software engineer , program manager , product designer , and data scientist . 

You’ll notice that we’ve divided the questions into the following categories:

• Role-specific

We've added these categories to make the list of questions easier to understand, starting with the general questions that apply to any job. Each category tests a different quality that Meta is looking for in its candidates, and the frequency of each question type will vary depending on the role. For instance, interviews for managerial roles will include a higher number of leadership questions.

2.1 Meta behavioral questions: General

First up are the general behavioral questions that may come up for any role. Here your interviewer is looking for an overall view of your past experiences and how you will perform as an employee at Meta.  You’ll see that regardless of the role, Facebook is curious about your resume, your motivations, how you handle difficult situations, and why you want to work for them specifically.

These are good questions for you to demonstrate your alignment with Meta’s core values. Show your willingness to take risks, lessons learned from past mistakes, a bias for action, and other qualities that Meta is looking for in a candidate.

Practice demonstrating those values using the questions below.

Example behavioral questions asked at Meta: General

• Why this position?
• Tell me about yourself / your past experience

Tell me about a past challenge or conflict you handled

• Tell me about your skills and interests
• Tell me about the greatest accomplishment of your career
• Tell me about a time you failed and what you learned from it
• Tell me what others would say about you
• Tell me about your biggest accomplishment
• Tell me about the area where you have the most to learn
• Tell me about what do you want to do in the future
• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• Walk me through your resume
• Why are you transitioning from your current position?
• What makes a good [job title] / bad [job title]?

2.2 Meta behavioral questions: Teamwork

Many employees at Meta have to work in cross-functional teams with other software engineers , program managers , product managers , etc. So you’ll need to be able to communicate clearly, work with others efficiently, and build trust and relationships.

Your interviewer will be looking for you to share stories from your past experience that demonstrate openness, collaboration, and partnership. Give it a try using the following questions.

Example behavioral questions asked at Meta: Teamwork

• Tell me about a time you struggled to work with one of your colleagues
• Tell me about a time you were given feedback that was constructive
• Tell me about a time you had to resolve a conflict in a team
• Tell me about a time you managed a conflict/disagreement between stakeholders
• Tell me about a time you worked with cross-functional teams and the role you played
• Have you ever collaborated with multiple teams? What challenges did you face?
• How large was the team you were working on?
• Who else did you work with when you were doing X?

2.3 Meta behavioral questions: Leadership

In addition to employees with a collaborative nature, Mea is looking for employees who are able to motivate their team, resolve conflicts, drive alignment, and build relationships. This is because most roles will involve not only working in teams, but also leading them when appropriate.

This would be a good time to show that you’ve got drive and empathy, particularly if you're interviewing for a manager role. Some of the leadership skills that Meta is looking for in these questions include how you earn trust and take ownership, process and grow from past experiences, support the people around you, and overcome difficult situations.

Example behavioral questions asked at Meta: Leadership

• Tell me about a time you led a team
• Tell me about a time you had to step up and take responsibility for others
• Tell me about your worst boss and why they were bad
• How would you advocate for a commitment to a priority, when that priority is not high on someone else's list?
• How would you manage timelines in a highly matrixed environment, where there is no top down authority?

2.4 Meta behavioral questions: Role-specific

Our last category focuses on the questions that are specific to certain roles, such as “what made you get into design?” for product designers. While you should expect a combination of each of the previous four categories in any interview, the following questions apply most to data scientists , product managers , product designers , and software engineers .

Right, now let’s get into some questions.

Example behavioral questions asked at Meta: Role-specific

• Tell me about a recent / favorite project and some of the difficulties you had
• Tell me about a product you lead from idea to launch (product manager )
• Tell me about a time you struggled on one of your software projects (software engineer)
• Tell me about a data and analytics project you've worked on ( data science )
• Tell me about what made you get into design (product designer)
• How do you influence product? (product manager )
• Which part of the design process interests you most? ( product designer )
• Why do you want to be a product designer rather than a UX researcher? ( product designer )

3. How to answer Meta behavioral interview questions

Now that you’ve seen some of Meta’s top questions, let’s work on a technique for answering them.

3.1 Technique

When answering behavioral questions, you should focus on your most relevant achievements and communicate them in a clear way. An easy way to achieve this is to use a step-by-step method to tell your stories. 

The STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) is a popular approach for answering behavioral questions because it’s easy to remember. You may have already heard of it. However, we’ve found that candidates often find it difficult to distinguish the difference between steps two and three, or task and action . Some also forget to include lessons learned in the results step, which is especially crucial when discussing past failures.

So we’ve developed the IGotAnOffer method to correct some of the pitfalls we’ve observed when using the STAR method.

3.1.1 The IGotAnOffer method

Let’s step through our suggested five-step approach:

• Situation: Start by giving the necessary context of the situation you were in. Describe your role, the team, the organization, the market, etc. You should only give the minimum context needed to understand the problem and the solution in your story. Nothing more.
• Problem: Outline the problem you and your team were facing.
• Solution: Explain the solution you came up with to solve the problem. Step through how you went about implementing your solution, and focus on your contribution over what the team / larger organization did.
• Impact: Summarize the positive results you achieved for your team, department, and organization. As much as possible, quantify the impact.
• Lessons: Conclude with any lessons you might have learned in the process.

You’ll notice that this method covers very similar themes to the STAR method. We like it because a lot of the candidates we work with find this framework easier to use, as there’s no overlap between any of the steps in your story.

You should practice using whatever method you’re the most comfortable with. If you’d like to start practicing right away, jump back to the full list of questions here . 

Otherwise, to get a better idea of how our method works, work through the example below.

3.2 Example: Tell me about a past challenge or conflict you handled

Now that you know some approaches for answering behavioral questions, let's look at a full example. We’ll use one of Facebook’s most frequently asked questions.

Try answering the question below following your preferred method. Play both the role of the interviewer and the candidate. Write down your answer, then practice saying it out loud before going through our example response. Once you’ve finished, compare your response to our example to fill in any gaps in your story.

Try this question:

We’ll use the IGotAnOffer method described above and answer as if interviewing for a Product Manager job at Meta. You will find our proposed answer to the question below.

Notice that the question asks for a past challenge OR conflict, which lets you choose what you’d like to highlight in your answer. If you choose a past conflict you resolved, this would be a good way to show off your interpersonal and collaboration skills. However in this case, we’ve chosen to focus on a past challenge, which we’ll use to display leadership and problem-solving skills.

For a sample answer to the past conflict interview question, take a look here .

1. Situation

Note that this question isn’t necessarily about a specific role and allows you to describe a variety of situations. We’ll use an example from working at a coffee shop, but you should of course use an example from your own work experience.

You could start by saying something like, “When I was in college I was a barista at a 30-year-old, local coffee shop called Sunny’s. It was a small business with less than ten employees, resistant to change, and located in a neighborhood with new shops and restaurants opening at a rapid pace. It was also starting to lose regular customers and revenue.”

Without giving too much detail, this gives a quick sense of the setting for the challenge you faced and the solution you’re about to describe.

Once you outline the situation, you can explain the problem by saying something like, “The challenge was that we didn’t know why the shop was losing customers, and the owner was trying all kinds of different promotions that weren’t working.”

You have spent very few words between describing the situation and problem, but your answer so far has given the interviewer a clear sense of the setting and challenge you faced.

3. Solution

When describing the solution you came up with to solve the problem, it’s important to step through your thinking. And it’s especially important to focus on YOUR contribution.

You could say something such as, “I was only a barista and had no stake in the business, but wanted the shop to succeed given its history in the neighborhood. So I decided to find an easy way to understand the market and find some of the root-causes of the problem we were experiencing. My first step was to informally survey customers about their coffee habits as they paid for their order. This gave me insight into what other shops were popular and what people liked about them. Next, I stopped by some of the other shops on my way to work, looking for what they might be doing differently.

“I noticed a few common themes at these other popular shops: 1) They offered soy and almond as alternatives to dairy milk, 2) they emphasized fair trade coffee, and 3) they printed the WiFi password on receipts.

“I mentioned these themes to the owner and helped to prioritize easy, low-cost solutions. First, buying a few cartons of soy and almond milk allowed us to test if this made a difference to Sunny’s customers without requiring a big investment. Second, all of the coffee that Sunny’s sold was already fair trade, but this wasn’t advertised; so I helped make a few signs to explain and placed them around the store. Third, we realized that printing the password on receipts was too cumbersome of a change, so instead I trained all baristas to ask customers if they wanted the WiFi password after they paid for their order.”

Let’s take a step back and look at all of the different behavioral and product skills you’ve highlighted with this answer. It emphasizes your leadership drive, as you were trying to solve a problem even when it wasn’t your direct responsibility. 

Also, one of Meta’s core values is “Focus on Impact,” or acting to solve the most important problems. This answer demonstrates that, as you found low-cost and innovative ways to solve a big problem despite the limited resources of the company.

After explaining the actions you took, it’s a good idea to quantify how much impact you had.

You could say something like, “So what I did wasn’t all that complex. I asked customers about their preferences, conducted some basic competitive analysis, helped to establish low-risk innovations by brainstorming solutions with the owner, and trained staff on the changes. After these changes, sales returned to normal within a couple months. Seeing this, the owner started more regularly surveying customers and executing competitive analysis, which has helped to make Sunny’s one of the top coffee shops in the neighborhood to this day.”

Finally, wrap up your answer by describing any lessons you might have learned.

You could say, “This all happened before my professional career really started, but it taught me that the most innovative solutions are not always radical or expensive. It’s also a great reminder that understanding customer needs is crucial when trying to innovate in any business.”

3.3 Watch video example

Now you've seen how the framework on paper, let's see how it looks in a real interview situation. Check out how Damien (ex-Meta PM) uses the framework in his answers 2-5 in the video below.

4. Tips to impress your interviewer

Finally, before we move on to some interview preparation resources, we'd like to give you five helpful tips to keep in mind.

Tip #1: Get used to setting up the situation in 30 seconds or less

Use a timer while you practice to ensure you provide only necessary information. Spending too much time on the Situation step is one of the most common mistakes candidates make.

Tip #2: Stay focused on essential details

Interviewers hear a lot of behavioral stories a day. If you go into unnecessary details you are likely to lose their attention. Share your stories with a few different people before your interview and ask them what details they would suggest cutting.

Tip #3: Be proud and talk about YOU

This is not the time to be shy about your accomplishments. Concentrate on your impact, not what “the team” did. Not talking about YOU enough is another common mistake we see with a lot of candidates.

Tip #4: Adapt to follow up questions

Don’t be alarmed if your interviewer asks follow up questions; this is perfectly normal. Listen carefully to the way your interviewer is asking these questions, as there will often be a subtle clue about the specific skills they’re looking to assess from the next part of your answer.

Tip #5: Explain how failure made you better

When talking about failure, don’t try to hide your mistakes or frame a weakness as a strength. Instead, show what you learned and how you grew from the failure.

5. How to prepare for a Meta behavioral interview

Practicing by yourself will only take you so far. One of the main challenges of behavioral interviews is communicating your different answers in a succinct and clear way.

5.1 Learn about Meta’s company culture

Most candidates fail to do this. But before investing tens of hours preparing for an interview at Meta you should take some time to make sure it's actually the right company for you.

Meta is prestigious and it's therefore tempting to ignore that step completely. But in our experience, the prestige in itself won't make you happy day-to-day. It's the type of work and the people you work with that will.

If you know employees who work at Meta or used to work there, it's a good idea to talk to them to understand what the culture is like. Otherwise, here are some resources to help you get started:

• Meta's 6 core values (by Meta)
• Facebook’s “hacker culture ” (by Mark Zuckerberg, via Wired)
• Meta annual reports and strategy presentations (by Meta)
• Meta's approach to tech trends (by CB Insights)
• Meta org culture analysis (by Panmore Institute)

5.2 Practice by yourself

Acing a behavioral question is much harder than it looks. You’ll stand out if you put in the required work to craft concise and direct answers.

5.2.1 Write down your stories

First, work out which stories you’d like to tell. Make a list of key moments in your career (e.g. accomplishments, failures, team situations, leadership situations, etc.) that you can use to answer one or multiple questions. Take a look at Meta’s core values and find at least one story from your past that exemplifies each one. 

After you’ve finished your list, write out a story for each key moment in your career using the structure we've laid out in section 3. Be sure to emphasize your impact in each of these examples, quantify the results of your actions, and explain the lessons you learned from the experience. 

Once you have a bank of stories, go through the questions in section 2 and make sure you’d be able to answer all of them either by using one of the stories you’ve written directly, or by adapting it on the fly. If you identify any gaps, add stories to your bank until you’re comfortable you can cover all the questions listed in this article.

Click here to practice with more common behavioral questions and see example answers

5.2.2 Practice your stories out loud

After you've written everything down, a great way to practice your answers is to interview yourself out loud. This may sound strange, but it will significantly improve the way you communicate during an interview. 

You should be able to tell each story naturally, neither missing key details nor memorizing them word-for-word.

Play the role of both the candidate and the interviewer, asking questions and answering them, just like two people would in an interview. Trust us, it works.

5.3 Do mock interviews

As a result, we strongly recommend practicing with a peer interviewing you. If possible, a great place to start is to practice with friends. This can be especially helpful if your friend has experience with behavioral interviews, or is at least familiar with the process. 

5.3.1 Mock interviews with real Meta ex-interviewers

Finally, you should also try to practice behavioral mock interviews with expert ex-interviewers, as they’ll be able to give you much more accurate feedback than friends and peers. 

If you know an ex-interviewer from Facebook/Meta who can help you, that's fantastic! But for most of us, it's tough to find the right connections to make this happen. And it might also be difficult to practice multiple hours with that person unless you know them really well.

Here's the good news. We've already made the connections for you. We’ve created a coaching service where you can practice 1-on-1 with ex-interviewers from Meta and other top tech companies. Learn more and start scheduling sessions today .

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Non-profit member says solving NELA poverty problem will take more than just talking

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - According to a United Way study, the number of households in Louisiana living in poverty rose by 15% from 2010 to 2022. The study found one of the main perpetrators of growing financial struggle is the cost of living.

The United Way says Louisiana’s basic cost of living for a family of four with an infant and a pre-schooler was more than $84,000 per year in 2023.

New study finds growing economic hardship in Louisiana despite rising wages

Billy Varner is the director of the Renewal Center in Monroe, a non-profit organization that provides help to anyone who is struggling.

“They’re having to choose, ‘Do I want housing? Do I want to eat? Do I want to have a quality of life outside of just housing?’ And it’s difficult, and the choices that they make often time is, ‘I can’t afford it,” Varner says.

Aaron and Heidi are a deaf couple who live on the streets of Monroe. They are two of the many people the Renewal Center helps.

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Varner says the growing poverty rate in Northeast Louisiana does not surprise him.

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