
Max Wendkos
@maxwendkos
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Design Director at @Instagram. I use behavioral science to help companies create successful teams, systems, and products.
New York City
Joined June 2009
After 18 years on this platform, I’ve decided to step away indefinitely. This isn’t a political statement. It’s not an indictment of Elon or the direction of the platform. It’s something deeper—something shifting inside me. A fundamental reorientation of what I value, what
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We need more design managers that can execute and have taste: "Design management needs to [...] get off the bench and take on a little more of that old Creative Director energy: get in the details, push our teams to take one more pass at things" - @cap
https://t.co/nuiLLfEIEZ
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Alright, I've made it through every message. Our hiring team will be reaching out to 16 of you!
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It's going to take time to go through all these messages, but I'll read every one! If you want to increase your chances of a response, please make sure that a) you meet all the criteria I listed above and b) you include the three things I asked for 😎
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And if you're not looking right now but want to help other designers find a great job, it would still be great if you could RT this thread to raise awareness!
If you're a product designer and would be interested in joining Meta (including Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Reality Labs, Gen AI, etc.), here's your chance 👇
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If this describes you and you're interested, DM me a link to your portfolio, your LinkedIn, and your email address. I'll review your portfolio and, if the work is strong enough for us to consider, I'll connect you with one of our product design recruiters!
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We've opened lots of new and exciting design roles at Meta, so I'm doing this again! I'm looking for designers who meet the following: • 6+ years of experience • Very strong on product thinking, craft, and prototyping • Based in NYC, SF Bay Area, or Seattle (or open to relo)
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Last year, I called for product designers interested in joining Meta and received ~100 messages. I reviewed every portfolio shared with me and connected 20 designers with our recruiters. All of them received interviews and 25% (and counting!) have received offers thus far.
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If you're a product designer and would be interested in joining Meta (including Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Reality Labs, Gen AI, etc.), here's your chance 👇
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Looking for holiday gifts for designers that are between $50-100. Things that are beautiful and well-made. Any suggestions?
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"The more you know, the less you diversify." This Naval quote is a valuable guiding principle for product development. Most product teams fail to recognize how much can be known upfront and over-diversify to compensate for their lack of foresight, which caps their upside.
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Just realized I've been paying Dropbox $200 per year, which seems insanely high. What cloud storage providers are other people using?
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About to take off on a road trip and need a few podcasts to queue up. What are the most informative and eye-opening podcast episodes about AI?
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This is so refreshing. I really look forward to seeing the details of Block's new performance review process. (Also, this might be the first time I've ever seen a company include designers alongside engineers when talking about builders. Strange to me that this isn't the norm.)
Full text from Jack Dorsey to Block employees via Insider: I want us to build a culture of excellence. Excellence in service to our customers, excellence in our craft, excellence in our respective disciplines, and excellence to each other. We want to help everyone achieve
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"The problem I’ve seen in companies is that this MVP thinking promotes taking constant shortcuts and shipping shitty things in the name of the MVP."
I took a while to respond to this because Eric’s answers were very good, and logical so it’s hard to refute. I also do respect Eric Ries a lot, he has lot of experience with different companies and his book Lean Startup was really influential to me when it first came out. But…
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Twitter is clearly much worse than it was before Elon took over and all signs are that the decline is going to continue. There are two things keeping people here: 1) Top creators don't want to give up the huge audiences they've built. 2) Community network effects are strong.
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Guess Elon's decided to fill our notifications with spam to get us back into the product. His terrible product decisions continue to pressure test the power of Twitter's switching costs.
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