Meta Layoff Impacts Some Indian Techies Within 2-3 Days of Their Joining

Some of the Indian techies, who switched to social media main Meta after quitting their secure jobs simply two-three days in the past, are among the many 11,000 folks laid off by the corporate.

Facebook has laid off 11,000 staff throughout the globe to chop down price.

An IT skilled Neelima Agarwal, who joined Meta two days again, posted on social media platfrom Linkedin that she is among the many individuals who have misplaced their jobs.

“Relocated to Canada from India just a week back and joined Meta two days ago after going through such a long visa process. But the unfortunate sad day has come and I got laid off,” she stated.

Neelima had left her two-year previous job at Microsoft Office in Hyderabad to hitch Meta, in keeping with her LinkedIn profile.

After working for over three years at Amazon workplace in Bengaluru, Vishwajeet Jha stated he joined Meta three days again and has been laid off now.

“I joined Meta three days back after waiting for the long visa process. Thanks to all the folks who made that transition smooth. Really sad that this happened, my heart goes out for everyone who is affected by the layoffs,” Jha posted.

The Indian staff of Meta, the agency that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, have been thrown off guard after the US agency introduced 11,000 layoffs globally or 13 % of its workforce.

While no country-specific numbers have but been disclosed, Meta’s India employees are searching for clues on their future.

Company officers went incommunicado quickly after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made public a letter he had written to staff asserting the job cuts.

Zuckerberg has promised 16 weeks of base pay plus two extra weeks for yearly of service as severance bundle to the impacted staff.

Raju Kadam, who was a part of Meta’s technical group, stated he has been within the US for 16 years and by no means confronted job loss. “I have H1-B visa. my clock to leave the US has started today. I have been in the US for 16 years and seen the 2008, 2015 (oil) and 2020 downturns, but never lost my job,” he stated, including that his sons are US residents and their lives will probably be impacted.

The layoffs at Meta come inside per week of huge job cuts at social media platform Twitter.

As a part of a cost-cutting train, Twitter has reportedly fired round 7,500 folks throughout the globe, together with greater than half of the individuals who labored for the corporate in India.