A former Meta recruiter has revealed she “did nothing” for the beleaguered tech company while earning a $190,000 salary, months before Mark Zuckerberg handpicked thousands from the workforce.
Madelyn Machado took to TikTok to reminisce about her time in Silicon Valley, recalling that the company’s approach to work “blew my mind” and that she “did nothing” during her six-month stint at the company.
The recruiter bafflingly claimed that even though his role required him to find new employees, his bosses told him he wasn’t even expected to do that.
“We weren’t expected to hire anyone for the first six months, or even the first year,” he said. This is something they tell you when you start.
His admission comes after Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that another 10,000 jobs will be cut from the company, on top of the 11,000 that were laid off in December.
Former Meta recruiter Madelyn Machado revealed that the tech company’s approach to work “blew my mind”
Mark Zuckerberg, pictured in March 2022, has announced that he will cut another 10,000 people from his workforce, after laying off 11,000 just five months ago.
Responding to a viewer who questioned what Meta staff did during their workday, Machado said his instructions not to hire anyone while working as a recruiter “blew my mind.”
“Perfect, I’m going to put up with this for a year,” he continued. “Obviously I didn’t get that far.”
Machado, who worked at Meta from September 2021 to February 2022 according to his LinkedIn profile, said Meta bosses expected their employees to just “keep learning.”
“They have some really amazing onboarding and training, the best onboarding and training I’ve seen at any company,” he said. ‘It could have been better, but it was still very complete.
‘The expectation when you start out is really that you’re just learning and taking it all in…but the most we did, this was the crazy part, is we had a lot of team meetings.
‘Why are we meeting? We are not hiring anyone,” she added. “I was also on a team where everyone was new, so none of us were hiring anyone.
“I really miss him, he wasn’t doing shit.”
Meta’s recent job cuts, which reduced its workforce by 13 percent, came as CEO Mark Zuckerberg tries to recoup struggling revenue streams from the tech giant.
Having poured at least $10 billion into developing the ‘metaverse’ in the past two years, it has announced several rounds of layoffs to save its bottom line.
Confirming this month’s layoffs, Zuckerberg said: “Overall, we expect to reduce the size of our team by about 10,000 people and close about 5,000 additional open positions that we haven’t hired yet.”
‘This will be difficult and there is no way around it. It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been a part of our success.”
Mary Prescott has criticized Meta’s “cold and corporate” firing system after she was fired from her role as software engineering leadership recruiter at the tech company.
Meta has introduced several cost-cutting measures in recent months after losing billions in value last year.
While Machado seemed to be in good spirits as he reminisced about his time at Meta, another recruiter who recently lost his job condemned the company for its “cold and corporate” firing process.
Mary Prescott worked at Meta as a software engineering leadership recruiter for 10 months before receiving the dreaded email informing her that she had been fired in the midst of the company’s hiring freeze.
He shared his experience in Business Insiderrevealing that he felt “survivor guilt” after the tech company began laying off staff in recent months.
Prescott, who had worked at various technology companies as a recruiter for the past nine years, said: “I definitely had survivor’s guilt.” I felt horrible for everyone who was fired after investing so much of their time and experience in Meta’.
He added that he began to anticipate the layoffs after Zuckerberg announced that 2023 would be his “year of efficiency.”
“We’ve been on the edge of our seats ever since that announcement,” he said. “We knew there would be more layoffs, so it wasn’t a complete shock, but the way it was done felt very cold and corporate.”
Zuckerberg also apparently prepared his employees for his impending layoffs by giving thousands of employees poor performance reviews in the preceding months.
It has come under fire after pouring billions into its ‘metaverse’, which is said to have slashed $80 billion from its value in the past year alone.
According nasdaqthe company has experienced an operating loss of nearly $24 billion in the past two years, prompting Zuckerberg to introduce a series of cost-cutting measures to remedy his declining bottom line.