"The type of people we attract are really focused on solving big problems," says Janelle Gale, Facebook's vice president of human resources. "The thing that we look for the most is hiring people who are oriented to moving beyond the status quo and figuring out how to make things better."
Facebook refers to these kinds of employees as "builders," Gale notes. "We pay a lot of attention to hiring learners and really being oriented to hiring people who know they have something to learn and are really open to and seeking feedback and want to grow," Gale says.