My company used to cut the “bottom 5%” every year and each team always cut people. They used to switch up managers quite often too. If you’re a new manager who doesn’t know your team and have nobody rated below “meeting expectations”, what does a lazy manager do? Meh, they just pick one. We lost some really good people that way. Answer from International_Bend68 on reddit.com
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Message to Meta Employees
November 9, 2022 - We will pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service, with no cap. PTO. We’ll pay for all remaining PTO time. RSU vesting. Everyone impacted will receive their November 15, 2022 vesting.
Axios
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Zuckerberg to cut 5% of Meta based on performance
January 14, 2025 - The move follows large previous rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023.
SFist
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Meta to Lay Off Around 3,600 More Employees as It Faces 'Intense Year,' Zuckerberg Says
January 14, 2025 - CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an internal memo to the company's Workplace platform Tuesday, announcing another upcoming round of layoffs. The company will be letting go of 5% of its workforce, or around 3,600 employees, all of whom will be informed ...
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My company used to cut the “bottom 5%” every year and each team always cut people. They used to switch up managers quite often too. If you’re a new manager who doesn’t know your team and have nobody rated below “meeting expectations”, what does a lazy manager do? Meh, they just pick one. We lost some really good people that way. More on reddit.com
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December 7, 2024Facebook-parent Meta planning more layoffs, to impact thousands: Report
They have hired a ridiculous number of people over the last 6-7 yrs. I was surprised when i first heard about the 11k layoffs in December as i remember Facebook having < 20k employees in total. It looks like they went from a headcount of 17k to 90k between 2017 and 2022! No wonder they are now wiping out thousands.I wouldn't be too surprised if there are more rounds of culling after this. Sad that the rank and file will have to pay for the follies of the generals. More on reddit.com
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December 11, 2024Mass layoffs in tech spread to Meta, corporate parent of Facebook
Have they considered that maybe instead of some systemic economic warning sign that maybe Zuck and Musk just suck at managing social media companies in 2022?
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November 11, 2019Forbes
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Meta Layoffs - Facebook Continues To Cut Costs By Cutting Headcount
December 8, 2022 - Meta laid off over 11,000 employees ... The layoffs will mostly come from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, while the metaverse division will see fewer cuts. The areas most affected are the business and recruiting teams.
Investopedia
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Meta (Facebook) Begins Biggest Layoffs in Company's History
November 9, 2022 - Meta (Facebook) is implementing the biggest layoffs in the 18-year history of the company, slashing 13% of its work force as ad growth slows.
Reuters
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Facebook owner Meta slashes business teams in final round of layoffs | Reuters
May 24, 2023 - REUTERS/Peter DaSilva/File photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab · Even among cuts aimed specifically at technology teams, the company has eliminated non-engineering roles like content design and user experience research most severely, ...
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Meta lays off 11,000 workers to "become a leaner and more efficient company" - Tubefilter
November 9, 2022 - Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will lay off more than 11,000 employees in a round of job cuts that will affect Facebook and Instagram.
Reddit
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r/Layoffs on Reddit: What do you think about Facebook planning to lay off 5% of all its employees?
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The layoffs will be performance-based and will only target the bottom-performing employees. Hmm...the question is, how do you determine if an employee is the worst performer?
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My company used to cut the “bottom 5%” every year and each team always cut people. They used to switch up managers quite often too. If you’re a new manager who doesn’t know your team and have nobody rated below “meeting expectations”, what does a lazy manager do? Meh, they just pick one. We lost some really good people that way.
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FAANG does stack ranking. I’ve seen it at Amazon, where I work. Performance also sometimes uses shit metrics and is sometimes based on personal biases and sometimes sheer luck.
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Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 people | Mashable
Facebook owner Meta will cut its workforce by about 13%, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday.
Published October 27, 2025
NYTimes
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Meta Cuts 600 Jobs at A.I. Superintelligence Labs - The New York Times
October 22, 2025 - The cuts, which were earlier reported by Axios, came at an intensely competitive time for Meta, which has spent the past three years dealing with the rapid onset of A.I. After ChatGPT burst onto the scene in 2022, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft hired furiously to build the next generation of A.I. chatbots and other products. Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, struggled to keep up with the pack.
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Meta Facebook Layoffs 2022: 11,000 Staff Cuts Amid Social Media, Metaverse Struggles - | ChannelE2E
September 11, 2023 - Facebook parent Meta Platforms will lay off 11,000 employees amid social media ad weakness, and poor business traction in the metaverse, Reuters reported.
NPR
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Facebook parent company Meta sheds 11,000 jobs in latest sign of tech slowdown
November 9, 2022 - Facebook parent Meta lays off 11,000 workers CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for the layoffs, which represent the first large-scale workforce reduction in the company's 18-year history.
CNBC
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Meta laying off more than 11,000 employees: Read Zuckerberg's letter announcing the cuts
November 9, 2022 - We will pay 16 weeks of base pay plus two additional weeks for every year of service, with no cap. PTO. We'll pay for all remaining PTO time. RSU vesting. Everyone impacted will receive their November 15, 2022 vesting.
Deadline
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Facebook Parent Meta Platforms To Lay Off 5% Of Staff
January 14, 2025 - The layoffs follow deeper cuts in recent years. At the end of 2022, Zuckerberg revealed plans to cut 13% of staffers and later declared 2023 to be the company’s “year of efficiency.”
TheLayoff
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Meta / Facebook Layoffs - TheLayoff.com
October 24, 2025 - ... Facebook owner Meta Platforms plans to carry out its expected company-wide layoffs next week while pushing ahead with the expedited hiring of machine learning engineers, it told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters on Friday.
InvestorPlace
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Meta Platforms Layoffs 2022: What to Know About Facebook Job Cuts, Hiring Freeze | InvestorPlace
November 7, 2022 - The company will announce thousands of layoffs as early as Wednesday.
USA Today
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Meta\u00a0layoffs: Facebook parent company cutting 5%\u00a0of workforce, focusing on 'low performers'
January 15, 2025 - Facebook news: Meta shelves fact-checking in policy reversal ahead of Trump administration · The social media company initiated several restructuring changes in 2022, resulting in around 11,000 job cuts, before eliminating roughly 10,000 roles ...
Futurism
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Facebook Is Laying Off 11 THOUSAND Employees
November 9, 2022 - The news, while horrible for the people implicated, is not entirely unexpected — last month, Insider reported that up to 12,000 layoffs could be coming, and at the end of September, reports broke that employees were being placed on a "30-day ...
CNN
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Facebook parent company Meta will lay off 11000 employees
November 9, 2022 - Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday said it is laying off 11,000 employees, marking the most significant job cuts in the tech giant’s history.
NBC Bay Area
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Meta layoffs: Tech giant reportedly cuts more workers – NBC Bay Area
October 17, 2024 - Meta is laying off more employees in divisions such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Reality Labs, according to a report late Wednesday from The Verge.