Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer of Facebook

Episode Overview

Among other topics, Mike discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

• The three innovation pillars that underpin Facebook’s ten-year roadmap
• The talent needs of Facebook extending beyond computer engineering
• Strategies for unifying a diverse talent pool to achieve a common goal
• Engaging in partnerships within the industry to accelerate the rate of technological change
• How utilizing Facebook in the workplace can bolster productivity and collaborative efforts among employees
• The idea of “cultural engineering” to build cohesion across an organization

Mike Schroepfer’s Biography

Welcome to Metis Strategy’s Forum on World Class IT. I’m Peter High, and I’m pleased to welcome Mike Schroepfer to the broadcast. Mike is the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook. In that role, he leads the development of the technology strategies and teams that will enable Facebook to connect billions of people around the world and make significant breakthroughs in fields like artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

Before Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global and open product development process behind Firefox. Mike was formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, which acquired his company, CenterRun. He began his career working at various startups, including a digital effects software startup where he developed software that has been used in several major motion pictures.

Mike holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.

I met with Mike in his office at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California last week, and our conversation covered Facebook’s ten-year plan, and the three innovation pillars that he leads. Examples of innovations that the organizations are working on in the near and long-term, the methods he uses to evaluate recruits and employees, the way in which Facebook has maintained its innovative edge despite its extraordinary growth, among a variety of other topics.

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