New Delhi: Some Indian techies, who switched to social media major Meta after leaving their stable jobs just two-three days ago, are among 11,000 people fired by the company.
Facebook has laid off 11,000 employees worldwide to reduce costs.
Neelima Agarwal, an IT professional who joined Meta two days ago, posted on the social media platform from LinkedIn that she is among those who have lost their jobs.
She said, “Moved from India to Canada just a week back and after going through such a long visa process joined META 2 days back. But unfortunate sad day came and I was fired.”
According to a LinkedIn profile, Neelim had left his two-year-old job at Microsoft Office in Hyderabad to join META.
After working for more than three years at the Amazon office in Bengaluru, Vishwajit Jha said that he had joined META three days ago and has now been fired.
Jha posted, “After waiting for the long visa process I joined Meta three days ago. Thank you to all the people who made that transition smooth. Really sad that this happened, my heart goes out to all of them those affected by the layoffs.”
Indian employees of Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, have been let off guard after the US firm announced 11,000 or 13 per cent of its workforce globally.
While no country-specific numbers have been disclosed yet, the employees of Meta India are looking for clues about their future.
Company executives went incommunicado shortly after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made public a letter he wrote to employees announcing job cuts.
Zuckerberg has promised 16 weeks of base pay and two additional weeks for each year of service as a severance package to affected employees.
Raju Kadam, who was part of META’s technical team, said that he has been in the US for 16 years and has never faced a job loss.
“I have an H1-B visa… my clock to leave the US has started today… I have been in the US for 16 years and have seen the 2008, 2015 (oil) and 2020 recessions, but never my job Lost,” he said, adding that his sons are US citizens and their lives will be affected.
The layoffs at Meta come within a week of the massive job cuts across social media platform Twitter.
As a part of cost-cutting, Twitter has reportedly fired around 7,500 people worldwide, including more than half of those working for the company in India.