Yumeng's Story
Choosing a Team of Mentors
When Yumeng finished Meta’s boot camp, she had three different Instagram teams to choose from—Search, Explore, and Home Ranking. She was most intrigued by the Search team because it’s a fast-growing product that serves almost all Instagram users. Plus, she liked that the people on the team were very experienced and could provide her with the mentorship she needed as someone fresh out of a PhD program.
What Yumeng Has Learned at Meta
Both Technical and Soft Skills
Since coming to Meta, Yumeng has become an expert at SQL—something she didn’t know much about before—and has learned a lot about pipelines and data processing. She has also learned how to use the existing resources, colleagues, and tools around her to drive a product from zero to launch, such as the hashtag recommendation product, in which she developed a feature that suggests certain hashtags for users to follow based on their activity and interests.
“At Meta, you have access to libraries of code. It’s a great learning resource for everyone to learn new code, new structure, or a new type of designing of code.”
“I’m very impressed by the people working here. Everyone is very intelligent—not just in work, but in daily life—and you can learn a lot from them.”
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