Mark Zuckerberg has one clever interview 'test' that you have to pass to successfully land a job
Every CEO has their go-to interview technique, and Meta mogul Mark Zuckerberg is no different.
Landing a job sounds easier than it is, and in an ever-changing market with artificial intelligence well in our lives for good, it's harder than ever. Everyone has their own techniques when it comes to interviewing potential staff, with some interviewers having their own 'tests' to find the perfect candidate. Everyone has their dream job, and for some, that might be working for Mark Zuckerberg.
The Facebook co-founder has turned his business acumen into a $198.7 billion fortune, making him the fourth richest man in the world behind Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and Jeff Bezos. But what does it take to impress the Zuck?
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If you want to be one of the 70,000 people currently employed by Meta, Zuckerberg has explained his interview techniques (via the Independent): "I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person."
He added: "It's a pretty good test."
This isn't the first time Zuckerberg has discussed his supposedly foolproof test, saying similar during a 2018 interview with the Recode Decode podcast: "If the tables were turned and you were looking for a job, would you be comfortable working for this person then you're doing something expedient, but you're not doing as well as you can."
Zuckerberg said that his interview test is the 'single most important thing' when it comes to hiring someone, with him also saying that critical thinking is important.
The business overlord famously hired tech legend Sheryl Sandberg as Chief Operating Officer at Facebook, seeing her as a mentor and saying she's helped make Facebook a 'healthy business.'
His other advice for recruiting the perfect team is to keep it small: "The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible.
“[Facebook] serves more than a billion people around the world but our team has fewer than 10,000 people. It's only possible because of modern technology. Big companies get bloated."
Facebook sounds like a pretty fun place to work, with tech entrepreneur Sophie Novati telling Fortune: “The energy was buzzing at early Facebook. There were so many people just trying to build and ship cool stuff.
She says that Zuckerberg had some great advice for making money, explaining: "His response to me was, if you can figure out a way to capture people’s valuable attention, you can always figure out how to turn that into money later.
“What he was really focused on building is figuring out how to deliver value to people. Later on, you can always turn that value into dollars."
Unfortunately for Facebook, it's long dropped out Glassdoor's annual Top 10 companies to work for. Still, whatever Zuckerberg is doing, it's working. His Midas touch has made him a not-so-small fortune, and if you get a job working for him, know you must be pretty impressive because he'd likely work for you as well.