best experience is no experience

The Best Experience Is Inexperience

Before joining Facebook, Amir Michael spent more than five and a half years as a hardware engineer at Google. He had debugged motherboards and power supplies, but he had never designed his own server. And that’s why he was suited for building one for Facebook. “My vision wasn’t cluttered,” he says. “I had worked on individual components, but I never sat back and looked at the whole system.”