Top $100 Million Meta Engineers Hide Offline Because Job Hunt is Forbidden Art
KEY POINTS
- •Michael Novati spent nearly eight years at Meta and earned the nickname 'coding machine' during Facebook's pre-AI era.
- •Novati revealed top engineers avoid LinkedIn because recruiters use secret long-term relationships and hand-delivered soup to recruit.
- •Meta aggressively competes for AI talent, employing CEOs like Zuckerberg and Altman who get personally involved in recruiting.
Michael Novati, former Meta "coding machine" and principal software engineer, spilled Silicon Valley’s best-kept secret in 2025: the highest-paid engineers don’t do LinkedIn. Forget #100millionengineer taglines—those mythical tech knights vanish offline, sucked into clandestine recruiting rituals where recruiters bond over Stanford dorm tours and CEOs like Zuckerberg hand-deliver soup to poach AI talent. Novati warns against the plebs’ tactic of deleting LinkedIn, as only a rarefied few earn the fancy dinners with Bezos or secret equity grants. Meanwhile, Meta, pumping big bucks into AI superlabs, channels its inner mob boss recruiting wars. It’s high-stakes invisibility, starring Zuckerberg’s soup diplomacy and Sam Altman’s personal calls—a Silicon Valley soap opera absent from your algorithms.
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The best Meta engineers don’t LinkedIn because apparently showing up on social media is harder than hand-delivering soup from Zuck to snag AI brain power.
Calling tech recruiters ‘secret backroom dealers’ sounds way cooler than corporate stalking but means the same thing with fancier sandwiches.
Deleting LinkedIn won’t summon offers unless you also star in Zuckerberg’s soup delivery saga and RSVP to Bezos’ mystery dinners.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/12/2025 | Author: Henry Chandonnet
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