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!

There have been some pretty intense internal debates over product features - privacy/information related or otherwise. There are a lot of ambitious employees at Facebook who are also humans who use Facebook and other services and push for different ways of looking at things. This is exactly why I'm fighting so hard now to help people from more diverse backgrounds get into companies like Facebook. We need need qualified engineers to fight for their views as well.