u/michaelnovati posted ·
I'm doing a live video AMA next week and would like you to come! I don't talk on camera often and I'm nervous, but I want to try to dedicate some time to answering the most questions possible, candidly and authentically and I'm going to try to do it live without preparation.
Wednesday October 11th, 3pm PST / 6 pm EST, on Zoom, get the link and invitation here: [https://michael-novati-ama.splashthat.com/](https://michael-novati-ama.splashthat.com/)
Nothing is off limits, BUT I will only be answering questions I feel I can give more unique or useful advice on and will pass on questions that I feel I'm not uniquely qualified to answer or that you can get answered elsewhere. I'm hoping that I get asked a lot about my days at Facebook, as it grew from 200 engineers to 10,000 and I have a lot of stories to tell that are funny, interesting, and unique.
**Transparent disclosure**: I'm the co-founder of a mentorship platform to help experienced engineers (1-5+ YOE as SWEs) level up their careers and achieve their next career goals. My day job is as the lead engineer and I write a lot of code and help Fellows in the program navigate interviews and job offers. We work with a number of bootcamp grads and engineers with non traditional backgrounds so there is some amount of bias posting in this sub-reddit, **but I want to be abundantly clear that we are not a bootcamp or an alternative bootcamp and we generally do not help bootcamp grads who haven't worked for a while first - I am not advertising anything to you and I'm posting this in hopes that I'll be able to offer advice and help next week.**
I've been an active member of this subreddit for almost 2 years with hundreds of comments and I've chatted with hundreds of fantastic people async so I'm going to give this format a try.