Interview with a Meta EM: AI Impact on SWEs, Team Match, Ramp-Up, How to Learn

Hello Interview - SWE Interview Preparation
Hello Interview - SWE Interview Preparation
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Published 2024-07-05
In the first of our Hello Interviews series, Stefan interviews Christian, an EM at Meta, about his career path, the role of software engineers in the tech industry, and how to be effective in a big company.

* Make It Stick - The Science of Successful Learning, Peter C. Brown // www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674729013/
* The Death of the Junior Developer, Steve Yegge // www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:72110…
* A Career Cold Start Algorithm, Andrew Bosworth // boz.com/articles/career-cold-start

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00:00 Introduction
01:48 Job Hopping and the Evolving Role of Software Engineers
06:04 The Impact of AI on Software Engineering
21:05 Ramping up in a new company
28:12 The Frustration of the Hiring Process
38:09 Dealing with Interview Challenges
All Comments (15)
  • @Ynno2
    I will say the personal interaction I had with Meta recruiters (especially the initial technical sourcer) and interviewers in general was the best I've ever had with any company.
  • @MattPileggi
    Makes me wish I knew C++ and could work for Christian's team! I'm a frontend JS developer, very excited about the future of AI (especially the UI that will arise), and talking with Meta recruiters as well. Keep up the great content, this channel has already been super helpful!
  • @awb19892
    I had a couple senior engineers I worked with early in my career who ripped apart my PRs and my designs, which helped me learn a ton. At some point after sitting through a bunch of design reviews (most of which I didn't author) and listening to the senior/team lead ask all these questions, suggest we stick a queue instead of something and make it async, talk about fan-out strategies, the simplicity of immutable data vs. mutable, etc. I really learned a ton and took those lessons with me. I still had to study a lot for design interviews because I never actually worked with web sockets and so on. I can't imagine that many people, even at FAANG companies, have created systems from the ground up (instead of coming in and building on top of what exists) that serviced millions or hundreds of millions of users. My first couple rounds of design interviews I messed up for sure.
  • @lamboarun
    The Best candid interview I have ever watched in YouTube to understand Hiring Manager Mind set in the current AI Era......Great Stuff
  • @eastsideGK
    Such a fun listen. Looking forward to more of these!
  • @3rd_iimpact
    Probably best interview from a Meta EM I’ve seen. Very insightful. Thanks for this. Please keep them coming ❤🔥
  • @ediancomachio2783
    I've never found a YouTube video more worthwhile than this one. thank you so much for putting this out. Christian is awesome and the interview questions were 100% on point thank you again.
  • @venkatamunnangi1287
    Always enjoy your insights. Thanks for hosting the interview! I wonder how much OpenSource Development would help in team-matching or interviews
  • @justlc7
    Great interview, what was the name of that "how to learn" book that stefan was talking about?
  • @yiannig7347
    So many candidates are in team match for months...
  • @tonyyang8424
    But…but there are a lot of times recruiter himself/herself is the biggest uncertain factor… variations are huge.