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

[@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.

[@hello_interview]

They are really good. Unfortunately some of the coordination roles have been outsourced lately so people are having more hiccups there especially with timezones but the recruiters and sources are top notch.

[@lamboarun]

The Best candid interview I have ever watched in KZbin to understand Hiring Manager Mind set in the current AI Era......Great Stuff

[@ediancomachio2783]

I've never found a KZbin 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.

[@hello_interview]

Glad you liked it!

[@3rd_iimpact]

Probably best interview from a Meta EM I’ve seen. Very insightful. Thanks for this. Please keep them coming ❤🔥

[@manivannansivaraj7324]

Very insightful! Thanks! A different perspective on what AI can do and cannot do to replace SWE. As a SWE, made me feel less anxious about the future.

[@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!

[@akashchandra2223]

Why are people so obsessed with work it's just a job they make me feel like what I'm doing is meaningless

[@eastsideGK]

Such a fun listen. Looking forward to more of these!

[@bassimeledath2224]

This was awesome to watch! So insightful as an early engineer - learned a ton.

[@khrest-lt6gj]

Very informative conversation! One day I hope to have this degree of institutional knowledge of the big tech work environment. For now, just leetcode and system design practice. Thank you!

[@dougpierce6139]

Great interview, Stefan! Christian seems like an amazing manager and I'd love to connect with him being an EM myself.

[@billieliang9220]

helpful insight, thanks for sharing!

[@venkatamunnangi1287]

Always enjoy your insights. Thanks for hosting the interview! I wonder how much OpenSource Development would help in team-matching or interviews

[@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.

[@aforty1]

Awesome interview! I wish I had watched this interview a few months ago when it first came out because I definitely had a situation where I passed a system design interview but the interviewer didn’t get L6 signals and it was kind of weird where we just weren’t on the same page and weren’t hearing each other. I wish I had reached out and seen if I could get a do-over because that interview prevented me from getting hired at L6.

[@akashchandra2223]

Where were you born and how did you get this interview?

[@TheKarateKidd]

Artisan code 🤣🤣 That was a great one

[@rockyalam]

I like the notion of absorption rate! I do believe that you can create breadth with studying text or even leet code. But the depth is not going to be there without the "struggle" in trying to implement real life solutions with the things you have learned.

[@hello_interview]

The struggle also makes it so much more satisfying :)

[@justlc7]

Great interview, what was the name of that "how to learn" book that stefan was talking about?

[@hello_interview]

Here it is! Meant to add to the description: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674729013/

[@justlc7]

@@hello_interview Thanks a lot, could you also add links to eng blogs that you/stefan recommend, or found the most useful.

[@kanesweet6585]

200 years before AI replaces SWE is ridiculous. Order of magnitude off of a reasonable estimate at the current ROC

[@Amin-wd4du]

200 years??? This guy

[@yiannig7347]

So many candidates are in team match for months...

[@hello_interview]

It's really brutal ...

[@TCH-u8f]

What is a EM?

[@hello_interview]

Engineering manager

[@TCH-u8f]

@@hello_interview Thanks for your response. I am watching this video right now.

[@tonyyang8424]

But…but there are a lot of times recruiter himself/herself is the biggest uncertain factor… variations are huge.

[@hello_interview]

Not all companies are like this! Best to work with someone who knows how things operate on the inside.

[@harishdalal136]

Has anyone told you, you look like Homelander

[@hello_interview]

This is Stefan and no, though I have heard people tell me I look like one of the vampires in Blade. Always the villains ...

[@harishdalal136]

@@hello_interview lol, not villain but maybe AntiHero (JK)

[@hello_interview]

@@harishdalal136 You know I think anything is a step up from random dude on the internet :)

[@harishdalal136]

​@@hello_interview n1 :P, But honestly the content on this channel is amazing! Keep it up, and I hope to see a lot more design videos coming soon.

[@sur83848]

200 years estimate for AI to take over software engineers? Are you kidding me lol?