Meta: Some of the 11,000 workers laid off by the corporation are Indian techies who just left their secure positions and switched to Meta, a social networking behemoth.
11,000 Facebook employees have been let go globally in order to reduce costs.
Neelima Agarwal, an IT specialist who recently joined Meta, tweeted on the social media site Linkedin that she is one of the employees who lost their employment.
“Just a week after moving to Canada from India, I joined Meta following a protracted visa application process. But the regrettable terrible day has arrived, and I was fired,” she spoke.
According to her linkedin profile, Neelime joined Meta after quitting her two-year position at Microsoft Office in Hyderabad.
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Fired after three days of joining Meta
Vishwajeet Jha claimed he joined Meta three days ago and has since been laid off after spending more than three years working at the Bengaluru Amazon headquarters.
“After enduring the drawn-out visa application process, I joined Meta three days ago. We appreciate everyone who helped make that move seamless. Really regretful that this occurred, my thoughts are with everyone impacted by the layoffs,” M. Jha published.
The news that the US company, Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, would be laying off 11,000 workers worldwide, or 13% of the staff, caught the company’s Indian employees off guard.
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Although no country-specific figures have yet been made public, Meta’s India crew is seeking for hints about what the future may hold.
Soon after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the letter he had written to staff about the job reduction public, company executives stopped communicating.
As a severance package, Zuckerberg has guaranteed the impacted employees 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for each year of service.
In his 16 years in the US, Raju Kadam, a member of Meta’s technical team, claimed he had never experienced a job loss. “I have an H-1B visa… my clock to leave the US has started today… I have been in the US for 16 years and seen 2008, 2015 (oil) and 2020 downturns, but never lost my job.” He continued, saying that his sons, who are US citizens, will be affected in some way.
The big job losses at the social media site Twitter occurred a week before the layoffs at Meta.
Around 7,500 individuals have apparently been let go by Twitter as part of a cost-cutting initiative, including more than half of its employees in India.
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