u/gtruck wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Let me ask, how many meetings you had to have before you could put idea from your mind to implementation? In my case, way too many when I was in a big company, if that was not the case in your case, respect.
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I would work with my managers to find a project to work on and then had a lot of freedom to just have "impact", which would come in many ways. There were a lot of meetings to discuss team priorities, unblock other people, etc... but we didn't spend a lot of time talking, we spent most of the time doing.
I did an internship at IBM in school and that's why I wanted to go to grad school, I wrote very little code and there was a lot of talking. At Facebook it was way more doing than talking. However with all the recent negative press and issues with Facebook, I think they are spending more time thinking about things before doing haha.