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/vertigosaltwater wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Don't worry about all that college stuff. LEt's do a little interview guerrilla style then. If it's good I'll publish it in a magazine. I have a lot of questions. What was your reaction to the Theranos scandal?  Did you ever think that something like that could ever

u/michaelnovati replied · May 4, 2022 ★ FEATURED

I did say ask me anything but those questions are a little off topic. I'm too boring for those answers to be relevant haha except why I left in 2017 maybe. Which was just that I like writing a ton of code and to keep progressing at Facebook I had to have drive broad initiatives that would take time from coding,.