Indian Man Relocated To Canada To Work At Meta, Fired Two Days After Joining
An Indian man who relocated from India to Canada for a job with tech giant Meta was laid off just two days after joining.
An Indian man who relocated from India to Canada for a job with tech giant Meta was laid off just two days after joining.
Indian employee fired by Meta two days after relocating to Canada
Himanshu V is one of the over 11,000 Meta employees who have been impacted by mass layoffs that CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced earlier this week.
LinkedIn/Himanshu V.
In a LinkedIn post, the IIT-Kharagpur graduate said he has ¡°no idea¡± what is next in store for him.
¡°I relocated to Canada to join #Meta and 2 days after joining, my journey came to an end as I am impacted by the massive layoff. What's next for me? Honestly, I have no idea! I'm looking forward to whatever comes next.¡±
"Let me know if you know of any position or hiring for a software engineer (Canada or India)," he added.
Himanshu¡¯s post has been widely shared on LinkedIn, amassing over 7,000 reactions and hundreds of comments.
"I feel for you, and I'm sorry. I remind everyone I work with of the perils of falling into the trap of thinking that things are just happening to you, as opposed to continuing with the conviction that you make your own way. But layoffs are the grand exception to the general rule: in this particular case, it's something that happened to you, over which you had no control. The only thing you have control over now is what you do next," a person commented.
"This indicates these intelligents have no finance and project planning. How do they hire and fire in just 2 days. how do they recruit wihout a proper forecast," a second person said. "Hi, sorry to learn that you were impacted this early in your career start at Meta. Have faith," another person added.
Meta to lay off 11,000 employees
Facebook parent company Meta is laying off 11,000 employees, marking the most significant job cuts in the tech giant¡¯s history. The job cuts come as Meta confronts a range of challenges to its core business and makes an uncertain and costly bet on pivoting to the metaverse.
Reuters
Meta had reported more than 87,000 employees at the end of September 2022. Company officials have already told employees to cancel nonessential travel beginning this week.
The planned layoffs would be the first broad head-count reductions to occur in the company¡¯s 18-year history.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had recently stated that the company would ¡°focus our investments on a small number of high priority growth areas,¡± adding that it means some teams will grow meaningfully, but most other teams will stay flat or shrink over the next year. ¡°In aggregate, we expect to end 2023 as either roughly the same size or even a slightly smaller organization than we are today.¡±
Meta added more than 27,000 employees in 2020 and 2021 combined, and added a further 15,344 in the first nine months of this year, i.e about one-fourth of that during the most recent quarter. And with the economic slowdown this year, tech giants like Meta are resorting to large-scale layoffs to cut costs.
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