TL;DR: I'm leaving Facebook and joining Plaid! I'll be working on the Developer Experience team, alongside some awesome folks, and backing a mission I support dearly.

In January of 2021, I decided that it was time to move on from Facebook. The culture wasn't the same as it was during my internship, and I felt myself being constrained by the process of a large company. So I went job hunting!

My primary requirements, inspired by Facebook's shortcomings, were:

While I interviewed at several companies (from 50B+ to <10M market caps), I can't go into details for all of them without making this post suuuuper long.

Picking Plaid

After all my interviews, and examining my offers, I decided on Plaid. Let's dive into that list from earlier to see why!

The amazing-to-haves

I don't want this to be a "sell" for Plaid, but I can't not mention some pretty cool perks:

Overall, I'm incredibly excited to start working at Plaid, and can't wait to start enabling next 🌊 of fintech companies! I'll be blogging throughout my time here, as I continue to learn more. Follow me on Twitter for updates!