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California Here We Come
Published last year, at the start of April under Personal
In about a month I’ll be moving to Palo Alto—land of buzzwords, venture capitalists, bubbles, and most important: opportunity. After graduation this May I’ll be packing my bags and traveling 2,800 miles to join my forty-niner friends on the left coast.
I’m excited to announce that I will be joining Facebook’s product design team in June. Speaking of opportunity: this is a company that is changing socialization and the way people communicate and a product that isn’t afraid to re-invent itself along the way. The product design team is at the core of this: the team designs and builds new features for Facebook’s audience of millions. I’ll be diving right into the deep end, so I’m both excited and nervous about this new chapter in my life.
I had several options for my post-college career, but Facebook won me over with a few factors:
Design Process:
Facebook’s notion of design is as holistic as my own. Design is not about decoration but problem solving. As such, product designers are given far more responsibility over their projects than at other companies I considered. At Facebook, product designers craft whole solutions to problems—from concept, to interface, to implementation.
Code Speaks:
If you’ve got a great idea at Facebook you don’t have to persuade management to give you the green light—just build it and let the code speak for you.
The People:
I’ll be working alongside the most talented people in the business, who also happen to be cool—an amazing coincidence. I had a great time hanging out (read: getting drunk) with some of the product design crew at SXSW and can’t wait to work with them in June.
And yes, I do enjoy playing that song when traveling to CA. Yep, I’m a dork.
Photo by SlightlyNorth under Creative Commons
Sound Off!
Excellent - enjoy! (unless this is an April Fool’s joke =P)
It ain’t no party like a West Coast party
Cause a East Coast party ain’t… hey wait a minute :)
Best of luck with the new gig, Rob!
Congrats Rob! You’re going to have a great time and do an awesome job!
congrats - sounds like a great opportunity!
Good luck with the new position Rob! Should be a great opportunity!
That’s a great opportunity, and it sounds like a very supportive environment. Good luck, and let us know what you’ve learned.