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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!

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u/nutyourself wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

> So I asked as if Michael was Facebook, answering for their sins and for that I apologize. weellllll... sorry but this is the old "was just following orders" excuse. If you _chose_ to work for the devil, you bear some responsibility. Sorry. Just my point of view. ps - thanki

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Replying to the whole chain here. I think the question was fair and didn't take anything negative from it, being closed minded to well intentioned questions just makes it harder to have discourse on these issues. The story behind this AMA is I did one spontaneously in this hyper-focused Facebook Group about the Facebook interview process, and people had so many questions and I loved trying to answer them all. I was looking into to a similar one on Reddit and this was the suggested place to go! Definitely scary yeah! But I actually am thrilled most of the conversations are thoughtful and good intentioned.