Second, Goler says that applicants should be “builders” and “learners,” or people who are constantly educating themselves at the office and also contributing to the company’s growth through innovation.
Goler tells Glassdoor: “We’re always looking at something and thinking, ‘That works pretty well but it can be even better.” A recent example: the addition of fun filters to Facebook-owned Instagram.
“What that means is that we are never done … That’s true of every person on every job in every location across the globe for us,” she says. Express that you “would like the opportunity to contribute to doing good,” she says.
Zuckerberg says as much on a recent Reid Hoffman’s Masters of Scale podcast. Facebook’s company culture promotes risk-taking, by allowing engineers to experiment with new software, the CEO says on the podcast.
“On a day-to-day basis, a lot of the decisions I am making are, ‘Okay, is this going to destroy the company?” says Zuckerberg. “Because if not, then let them test it.”
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