Joined FB Ads 2020 summer from VMware. It has been a pretty good experience so far
I’d like to try infra chalenges with internet scale, after working in VMware EMC for a couple of years. Thus joined Facebook(a.k.a Meta) on May 2020.
So far, I have been working in FB ML infra to improve ads serving for about 1.5 years. Particularly I’m on ML feature engineering domain. Overall it has been a good experience with 4 major learnings.
- Be effective. Learn how to move fast with constraints, be more goals focused, etc.
- Be convincing. Win arguments with code and metrics. Bottom-up culture is part of the company DNA.
- Be confident. Lots of smart people and deep thinkings. Imposter syndrome helps you to be a good listener, but also may close doors silently.
- Be visionary. Your dream defins the upper bound of your achivements.
Surely there are challenges or things get me confused here. Not major issues to me at current stage.
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