A Fascinating Q&A with Meta Employees on Blind

Right after leaving Meta, I posted an ask-me-anything on Blind’s Meta channel — the response was phenomenal. Below are responses to 85 out of the 100+ questions asked.

Right after leaving Meta, I posted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Blind’s Meta channel — the response was phenomenal — 5,468 views, 357 comments, spanning 100+ questions — direct, unfiltered, meaningful, and atypical of Blind, rather respectful of a discourse. I made it single-blind, i.e. askers’ identity was hidden of course, but I dropped enough hints that folks figured out who I was, e.g. one of the upvoted questions was the super-challenging “Does your name start with R?”. I did this AMA because I felt I had a lot to contribute while still fresh in memory, and I knew that many had questions they wouldn’t ask openly. This was also my first and last active post on Blind which is usually a bit too negative and cynical for me to go beyond passive consumption.

Of the 100+ questions that made me introspect and I ended up writing non-trivial responses to about 85 of them. Here I am sharing a subset of these Q&As that are likely to be useful in a company-agnostic manner, after some sanitizati…