Here’s the most important thing Mark Zuckerberg asks before hiring someone

By Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor
Benjamin SnyderManaging Editor

Benjamin Snyder is Fortune's managing editor, leading operations for the newsroom.

Prior to rejoining Fortune, he was a managing editor at Business Insider and has worked as an editor for Bloomberg, LinkedIn and CNBC, covering leadership stories, sports business, careers and business news. He started his career as a breaking news reporter at Fortune in 2014.

Mark Zuckerberg has some advice you probably don’t want to miss: “I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person,” the young CEO told an audience at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, as reported by the Telegraph.

He cautioned, however, that “Facebook is not a company for everyone in the world.”

Zuck had some management advice, too:

The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible. [Facebook] serves more than a billion people around the world but our team has fewer than 10,000 people.