Anthropic Eng Leader And Ex-Senior Director at Meta On Microsoft vs Facebook, Career Learnings

Fiona Fung currently supports the Claude Code team at Anthropic and was previously a Senior Director at Meta. She grew quickly through the ranks at Microsoft and Meta before joining Anthropic. I interviewed her about what she learned along the way.

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00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Impact vs team health
03:04 - Managing managers for the first time
05:31 - Advice on mentoring others
06:55 - What you should use 1 on 1s for
07:56 - Leaving Microsoft for Facebook
10:59 - Microsoft vs Facebook culture
12:01 - Why dogfooding is important
21:25 - Joining Anthropic
27:23 - Feedback that changed her career
28:43 - Advice for younger self
29:14 - Outro

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