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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/yokingato wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Thank you very much! I really appreciate your wonderful reply about the education side of things. I was more wondering along the things you could advise them to learn when it comes to CS. Like what path someone could follow (at school or self-taught) to become a really great sof

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Definitely the fundamental computer science concepts, like CS50