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Meta slashes hiring plans for new engineers by 30 per cent as it girds for ‘fierce’ headwinds
- Meta has reduced its target for hiring engineers in 2022 to around 6,000 to 7,000, down from an initial plan to hire about 10,000, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said
- The Facebook owner seeks to ‘operate leaner, meaner, better executing teams’, raising expectations to force a ‘self-selection’ process among staff
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Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc has cut plans to hire engineers by at least 30 per cent this year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday, as he warned them to brace for a deep economic downturn.
“If I had to bet, I’d say that this might be one of the worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history,” Zuckerberg told workers in a weekly employee Q&A session, audio of which was heard by Reuters.
Meta has reduced its target for hiring engineers in 2022 to around 6,000 to 7,000, down from an initial plan to hire about 10,000 new engineers, Zuckerberg said.
Meta confirmed hiring pauses in broad terms last month, but exact figures have not previously been reported.
In addition to reducing hiring, he said, the company was leaving certain positions unfilled in response to attrition and “turning up the heat” on performance management to weed out staffers unable to meet more aggressive goals.
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