Ship Code or Ship Out – The Facebook Bootcamps

And, as has happened before, a fellow Bootcamper, working on one of the software bugs that new recruits are typically assigned to fix, made a mistake that crashed part of Facebook.

"That was a really scary experience for him," Goldfein said. "But no one said, ‘You idiot; you don’t belong here.’ They said, ‘Hey, you tried, and here’s what we’re going to do to try to fix it, and this is what you’ve learned.’ That experience of having people rally around you is really tremendous, and what it teaches you to do to is rally around other people."

By Mike Swift [email protected]

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