BBC: How Ruchi Sanghvi got the job at Facebook and became its first female engineer.
BBC: How Ruchi Sanghvi got the job at Facebook and became its first female engineer.
When Ruchi Sanghvi arrived at the Facebook office in California for a job interview in 2005, she found a menu card outside saying: “Looking for engineers.”
The start-up was located above a Chinese restaurant in downtown Palo Alto. It was modest looking place filled with gawky engineers, black sofas, lava lamps, and walls covered with murals and movie posters.