Position your attitude – and your résumé – as that of “a builder and a learner.”
So craft your résumé to highlight points in your career in which you built something new and mastered new skills. Once you’re in the hot seat at the interview, express through both explicit statements and your overall attitude that building and learning are goals as core to you as they are to Facebook.
Expect to work with autonomy and to build your own place at Facebook.
“self-selected into this environment” during the recruitment process. So rather than handhold by dictating daily tasks, Facebook instead tends to “provide context [about the mission and goals] so people can work with autonomy and know where everything is headed. They can go off and do their own thing.”
Be ready to have tough conversations.
The “social norm” at Facebook is to be pulled into hard conversations with no preparation necessary, which can be difficult for newbies at first. “What we say is that the more frequently you hop on them, the less hard they are,” Goler says.
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