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!

Hi, I'm a really middle of the road person, so I think that everyone has good traits, and traits they want to improve, has good days and bad. If we don't believe in the good we can do together then we have no hope, so I spent my time there trying to enable people to do more together than they can do apart. I'm really sad to see some of the recent problems and pain that people feel towards Facebook. It's so incredibly hard to bring people together who fundamentally disagree on the truth and part of me thinks Facebook is brave for trying, and part of me thinks that they need to push harder and harder to improve.