{"id":1009467,"date":"2026-05-22T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009467"},"modified":"2026-05-22T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:51:40","slug":"meta-reaches-out-to-ex-employee-for-interview-the-same-week-it-laid-off-8000-workers-we-will-cut-you-at-any-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/meta-reaches-out-to-ex-employee-for-interview-the-same-week-it-laid-off-8000-workers-we-will-cut-you-at-any-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta reaches out to ex-employee for interview the same week it laid off 8,000 workers: \u2018We will cut you at any moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Meta engineer claimed that the tech giant contacted him for an interview in the same week it laid off 8,000 employees. The executive shared the counterintuitive move online, fueling a massive discussion about the broken nature of modern tech recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeta reached to interview me for a principal role the same week they decided to layoff 8,000 people!\u201d a former corporate employee turned entrepreneur wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Meta engineer claimed that the tech giant contacted him for an interview in the same week it laid off 8,000 employees. The executive shared the counterintuitive move online, fueling a massive discussion about the broken nature of modern tech recruitment. \u201cMeta reached to interview me for a principal role the same week they decided to layoff 8,000 people!\u201d a former corporate employee turned entrepreneur wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009469,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009467\/revisions\/1009469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}