Teenage Facebook Offer

Guillermo Rauch shares how he received a job offer from Facebook as a teenager through his open source contributions.

"I started contributing to a library called Mootools when I was 15-16 years old, and this library got picked up by Facebook to become sort of the inspiration/foundation for their JavaScript infrastructure. I got a job offer from Facebook when I was like 17 years old.

When they discovered I was in Argentina and my age, they were like, 'Oh, maybe we should look for someone else.' But that same project kept opening doors for me because other startups started using the same foundation. They were thinking, 'Who should we hire?' and the first thing you think of is hiring the people that contributed to the project.

When I was about 18, a startup from Switzerland reached out saying, 'Hey, we want to hire a Mootools developer.' That's when I basically dropped out of high school. I had my first real job offer from a company in Lausanne, Switzerland. For my parents and myself, it was kind of surreal. I'd never left the country, and I was leaving Argentina for the first time with a job offer in hand in an amazing country."