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New Grad to Staff at Meta in 3 years

On Speed, Being Bold, and Depositing Into the “Favor Bank”

My first project at Meta involved migrating a legacy system that ingested ISIS and Al-Qaeda propaganda content and then hashed it to prevent copies from appearing on the platform. This breakthrough gave us a foundation to build on, and with further iterations—including incorporating comment embeddings as temporal features in our sequence models—and an expanding training dataset, we pushed our recall into the 90% range. These six principles—mastering speed as a multiplier, operating above your level, embracing that no one has all the answers, focusing on simple solutions to complex problems, building a favor economy, and maintaining positivity—weren't strategies I consciously developed.

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