"I have worked in cross-functional agile teams most of my career. Immediately after graduation, I joined Company X as a Junior Product Manager. We had teams across the globe, giving me my first taste of working with teams across numerous time zones. It was a challenge at first; however, I quickly caught onto the team dynamics, learned who was available during what time of day. I learned to arrange my tasks around other people's availability, ensuring that our time differences did not result in project delays. For example, there were many times that I would jump on a video call at 10 PM so that I could reach some of our engineers located in Dubai. I found the collaboration to be exciting because we accomplished so much as a team. In my previous PM position with Company Y, most of our team members were local, which presented different cross-functional team challenges since we all worked in tandem on the same 9-hour schedule. I found that projects often saw more delays since our workday was more compact. In my current position with Company Z, we have a global team. Many of our engineers and researchers are located in Noida, Melbourne, and Singapore. I much prefer a global team, and these positive experiences will ensure that I will bring a strong enthusiasm for collaboration to Facebook's world-class team. Specifically, I have learned to build a team based on trust, communication, respect, and empathy. Despite distance or scheduling, I concentrate efforts on getting to know everyone on the team personally. I treat each person as a unique individual and value one-on-one relationships. As a PM, I am also a team motivator, so I put effort into ensuring that everyone on the team knows how their special contribution makes a difference in the project. Regardless of my team being 6 people or 60, I will ensure that the team chemistry remains strong."