How to Answer Facebook Tradeoff and Diagnostic Questions
This group coaching session will teach us how to think and structure answers to tradeoff and diagnostic questions. Tradeoff and Diagnostic questions are usually follow-up questions to goals and metrics questions in the Facebook execution interview.
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