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