A former Meta engineer claimed that the tech giant contacted him for an interview in the same week it laid off 8,000 employees, sparking a massive discussion about the broken nature of modern tech recruitment.
The executive shared the counterintuitive move online, stating, 'I'm sure there was at least 1 out of those 8,000 people who got let go who would've been a good fit for the role they wanted to hire me for.'
He questioned a company's commitment to employee retention, adding, 'Why do companies expect us to be loyal to them if they don't even try to retain us when they have hundreds of billions of dollars?'
The tweet continued, 'It would be cheaper financially for them to retain one of those 8,000 people. It would be cheaper emotionally for the people who got let go too.'
He concluded the post by expressing his displeasure about AI layoffs, saying, 'I don't know. The culture around AI and layoffs has gotten unbelievably toxic.'
