Mark Zuckerberg's longest-serving employee on AI, jobs - and her boss

Mark Zuckerberg's longest-serving employee on AI, jobs - and her bossJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleZoe KleinmanTechnology editorBBCWhen Naomi Gleit joined Meta nearly 20 years ago, she was the firm's 29th employee.Today, she is its longest serving staff member - apart, that is, from founder Mark Zuckerberg.Since joining him at the age of 21, Gleit has watched a start-up called Facebook transform into a tech giant called Meta, and weathered many storms and controversies along the way.Now head of product, she told the BBC working at Meta was her "dream job" - even if, two decades ago, her family took some persuading that she'd made the right decision."My mom was very disappointed, she wanted me to work for Lehman Brothers," she laughs.The investment bank collapsed in 2008, triggering a global financial crisis. Meta, meanwhile, is still going strong but has experienced its own earthquakes: from privacy scandals and election rigging accusations to teen mental health crises and toxic online harms.Zuckerberg's 'unfair' reputationGleit acknowledges there have been moments where the company "didn't meet our standards" or missed the mark.But she says there is much she is proud of too - and Facebook's infamous "move fast and break things" motto was a "misunderstood value in isolation".Similarly, she feels Mark Zuckerberg's tech bro bad guy reputation is "unfair".To some, Zuckerberg is an archetypal big tech boss - worthy of scrutiny not just for his company's scandals but also for seeming cold, robotic and ruthless.Actor Jesse Eisenberg, who played the Facebook founder in 2010 film The Social Network about the firm's origins, told the BBC last February he did not want to think of himself as associated with him and his "problematic" actions.Succession star Jeremy Strong will soon portray Zuckerberg as the more steely, savvy boss behind a hug...