Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is laying off five percent of its workforce, but also expediting the recruitment of machine learning engineers to fill AI roles.
Business Insider reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta recently unveiled plans to cut approximately five percent of its workforce, potentially resulting in nearly 4,000 employees losing their jobs. The company began informing affected workers via emails sent to employees across the US, Europe, and Asia on Monday. However, in the midst of these widespread layoffs, Meta is also accelerating the recruitment of machine learning engineers focused on AI.
Several Meta employees who claimed to have received favorable performance ratings in their mid-year reviews last year found themselves out of a job on Monday, despite the company’s claim that low performers were targeted by the cuts. Business Insider interviewed eight terminated…
