Insights From an L7 Meta Manager: Interviews, Onboarding, and Building Trust

Camera mogged on my own channel. Unreal. Fortunately I'm better at systems design than these guys or else Stefan's old team at facebook might flag me down. For legal reasons that's a joke.

Thanks to Stefan for coming on the channel! Check out his:

[kennethobikwelu]

Hands down blown away by this session. Very illuminating... and you can tell that he know what he is talking about

[saimunshahee]

Two interviewing🐐's. Wouldn't have gotten a Meta offer without either of y'all!

[dirtyred-chmk]

Hello Interview was easily the best $200 I've ever spent.

[XxXx-scxu]

Amazing advice especially targeted at Staff / E6+. I fully agree that nearly all of the prep content online is targeted at E3-5 and completely misses the Staff mark.

[iamthene]

Awesome vid. Stefan is legit. Love the system design stuff but this content is super valuable too! More please Jordan!

[zshn]

Time and again I hear "put yourself in the shoes of your manager". This is poor advice with even worse consequences. You can't do that in a psychologically safe manner. If you do put yourself in your manager's shoes, you eventually create a persona and expectation of how to approach the activity/responsibility from "your experience" and not your manager's. This is critical because if the manager approach deviates from your expectations that were created by your act of thinking on behalf of your manager, those expectations are going down the drain majority of the time. And you eventually lead to disconnecting with your manager, for no fault of theirs. So, lesson learned: don't put yourself in your manager's shoes. Ask them instead. Frame better questions to get good answers.

[zixiaozhao]

It's been one of the most meaningful talks I have watched this year sofar! thank you

[VictoriaGimm]

you guys look like you’d introduce yourselves as “fire and ice” and compete for zendayas heart

[ronmiller]

Great one with great info. I feel the lines at higher levels get so subjective, that a particular mindset can do wonders in some team while being disastrous in others. Totally depends on the team culture. For eg : A senior person doing these social stunts will never be accepted in some teams where you can’t wow everyone with your tech skills so much so that people wish they learn a lot and step up to your level. While doing the social skills thing can give you an image as someone who knows nothing but just keeps doing show off.

[randymujica]

Great insights, this is pure gold! You both have by far the best System Design content. I'm glad I found your channels, it's been exhausting having to navigate the big ocean of noise in the internet. I also bought the Grokking subscription and had some progress but I'm just too lazy to read all that text.
I have been postponing for a while reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications, do you think its worth it?

[weaksauce]

"if you can't code, forget it"

it would be nice if interviews measured whether you can code or not. instead, they measure whether you can leetcode.

[gardnmi]

For more senior level interviews it should just be talking through your resume and getting more details on your experience. You as a company are trying to hire this person because they have conveyed in their resume they have the skillset to take on the challenge you are facing in your company. Asking the potential candidate to come up with some novel approach to a problem they weren't even prepared to be asked on the fly is an awful interview approach.

[nikhilm]

Good interview! Would be nice if you face the camera when asking questions

[trishaepan]

Huge fan of hellointerview! I clicked on this video because I thought I recognized Stefan's face! Hi Stefan!!

[MrAkshatgupta]

incredible video. very smart and sorted engineering leader.

[kodjigarpp]

Inspiring discussion, thanks for putting this together, I learned and reflected a lot.

[SnakeCaseGuy]

How to become an IC, when does one become an IC. Seriously speaking, is it like, You don't happen to become an IC, IC has to find you? Does it depend on like if you take lead from design to implementation, to collaborating with devops and QAs vs you are always working in team

[SystemDesign-pro]

Hey Bro, I'm a big fan of Stefan and their channel. However, your channel actually complements his a lot. He has good depth but doesn't cover all aspect of SD, your videos is very easy to watch and beginner friendly. So don't get discouraged. Hey you have way more followers than his. He said that because he wants bring his value proposition so that he can charge. You're the true philanthropist. Something for you to learn is how he market himself and monetize his channel. Love you bro!

[venkatamunnangi]

Thanks for the interview! Excellent material as usual!

[chalequin]

Recently screwed up behavioural interviews with Amazon . To be fair I don't consider myself a leader, I just wonder if all SDEs at Amazon are at that level of leadership they're assessing new hires ..