Facebook recruiting works hard to help build the best teams in the world and to create an amazing company culture. We’re at the forefront of finding talented and inspiring people and bringing them together to help build communities and bring the world closer together. Across engineering, product design, marketing, and beyond — Facebook is a special place where ideas, innovation, and impact win.

Our recruiting team here in EMEA are key to Facebook's growth and success in 2017 and beyond as we are in hyper growth mode and looking to hire hundreds of people in the next year. The recruiting team directly helps with that growth through finding and selecting great talent and being an indispensable expert partner to our business teams.

There's a lot that makes you feel valued as a sourcer at Facebook, we have a dedicated team of engineers that build world class recruiting tools to make our life easier. Sourcers at Facebook are experts in their own area, for example I strive to be an expert in finding and engaging niche developers and understanding these markets (mobile, graphics etc). I'd like to also think that I'm getting good at leading recruiting projects and working on products at scale by now, but let's not be too hasty :). People rely on me to have the expertise when it comes to techniques, strategies, knowledge of different markets, ability to drive discussions with different stakeholders and ideally have the data to prove my point. Hiring managers and teams we work with see us as equal, collaborative partners in the recruitment process. Because there's a great deal of trust in what we do, we have a lot of independence and opportunity to develop in a direction we're interested in, whether it is partnering up with recruiting tools team, data, branding, diversity, events or innovating our processes.

How the culture is quite different to other more corporate environments. Facebook London almost feels like one big group of startups and non-profit organizations. At Facebook you have autonomy, you're trusted to understand what to do and know the right direction to take to make things happen. I've never seen cross functional and cross location collaboration teams work as well as they do in Facebook.

Most days differ from each other. First of all, sourcing at Facebook is quite social, we often have sessions either with the entire team or just a few sourcers to brainstorm and help each other finding candidates. These knowledge-sharing sessions help a lot in terms of learning and efficiency and it is always interesting to see other colleagues data and approaches. People are also involved in different projects, from improving recruiting tools to events and more. Some meet engineers that they work with on projects, while some meet hiring managers or colleagues from different teams/locations, depending on the size and intent of the project.

So for me, it's a mix of sourcing, doing some admin work (usually on a bean bag), having one to one meetings over coffee, talking with candidates and taking time out to play table tennis.

Oh this one's tricky. There's a number of people that fit the bill, be it colleagues, engineers or our managers and leadership. Mark and Sheryl in particular are excellent role models, I really appreciate how they provide an authentic reflection of themselves on a daily basis. We have weekly Q&A's with Mark which are quite unique, employees vote on questions they would like to be raised and Mark answers everything in the most straightforward way possible. It feels like it really ties the company together.

Building a brand in the Israeli startup scene is a huge challenge. It helps when you have a recognizable brand like Facebook, but still people were (and some still are) surprised to hear Facebook has an engineering office in Tel Aviv. It’s a work in progress, and we started seeing the results only recently.

The positivity: People are really passionate about their work and have a truly positive attitude about life. We truly believe we can do better for the world. It’s not a show off. We really do care and really want to make a change.

No two days are the same. Every day has its’ own challenges and vibe. But if I try to summarize, it involves sourcing, talking to candidates, eating some of our finest cuisine at Facebook TLV, working and talking with our engineers and managers so we could build hiring plans and strategies to execute later, hosting events and networking while having a beer or a cocktail.

Being a part of building and growing the Facebook team in Israel has been a major career highlight.

When I joined I was involved in our Partnership hiring within media, telco and gaming verticals across Facebook, Instagram, and Internet.org business groups. 2016 was a very exciting year as I was involved in a completely new area of the business our enterprise communication platform Workplace hiring new skillsets and teams into London. While my recruiting was focused within Europe, Middle East and Africa I also had the opportunity to work with colleagues throughout the globe including Singapore, Brazil and San Francisco. In October 2016 I progressed into a people manager role and I currently lead a team who support one of our largest EMEA groups - Online Operations in addition I support our Policy & Comms, Finance, Legal and HR client groups.

At Facebook we invest time empowering individuals to focus on what they do best and as a manager I play a role in building team capabilities finding ways for them to use those strengths. It is remarkable to see how enabling each person within a team to focus on what they do best can lead to greater results than any individual effort could accomplish.