I’m Michael. I was a principal engineer at Facebook from 2009 to 2017, where I was the top code contributor of all time and also conducted hundreds of interviews. I recently co-founded Formation.dev, an engineering fellowship that trains and refers engineers directly into big tech. Ask me Anything!

I left in early 2017 and had plans to leave around the US federal election end of 2016, so I missed a lot of this on the inside and am not qualified to comment on that unfortunately. I can add one thing that's interesting. While I was there, Facebook really wanted to be a neutral party. When one person said something offensive to another person on Facebook, Facebook wanted that to be handled like it would be in real life, person to person. I don't think anyone was expecting people to want Facebook itself to have more of a voice and opinion on information and they have been working hard to figure this out.