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- Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has shed some light on what it's like working with Mark Zuckerberg.
- Mosseri said Zuckerberg is "very results-focused" and has "very high expectations."
- He added that while they "argued a lot in the early years," they've since struck a balance.
The head of Instagram is giving a glimpse into what it's like to work with Mark Zuckerberg.
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri described his working relationship with the Meta CEO on an episode of the podcast "The Colin and Samir Show" released Monday, calling Zuckerberg "very results-focused."
"Mark is very consistent," Mosseri said. "He is always going to hold a really, really high bar. He's always going to push you really, really hard. He's always going to have very high expectations."
Mosseri spoke of striking a delicate balance, for anyone, with your manager.
"You can, when you've worked with anybody for long enough, start to anticipate what their feedback's going to be, what they care about," he said. "So as long as you make sure you embrace that in addition to embracing whatever you believe in and how you want to approach the role, you have to find that balance."
As for how that applies to the two of them in particular, Mosseri said they "have that balance most of the time."
"We argue a decent amount, we argued a lot in the early years," he added. "I remember pushing back a lot on a number of random unimportant design specifics in like 2009, probably not good career advice. I look back at my 26-year-old hothead self, but over time you build up that trust."
Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth has also spoken about Zuckerberg's management style in the past.
Boz spoke of Zuckerberg's famous "Eye of Sauron," referring to the omniscient gaze of the Dark Lord in "The Lord of the Rings," in an interview on "Lenny's Podcast" in March.
He said Zuckerberg is laser-focused when an employee is working on a very important project, not hesitating to bring up even the smallest details.
Boz also broke down the way Zuckerberg responds to feedback.
"He'll most often tell you that you're wrong," Bosworth said.
Though Zuckerberg can initially disagree, he'll go to several more meetings and ask people their opinion of the feedback or proposed idea, seemingly trying to "pressure test" it, the Meta CTO said.
In the end, Zuckerberg can end up making the changes he'd previously dismissed.
"It's uncanny," Boz said. "Over the course of the next like week or two, you'll just see shifts."