{"id":1028073,"date":"2026-08-11T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028073"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:43:25","slug":"former-meta-tech-lead-shares-how-he-went-from-dj-to-coding-before-being-laid-off-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/former-meta-tech-lead-shares-how-he-went-from-dj-to-coding-before-being-laid-off-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Meta tech lead shares how he went from DJ to coding before being laid off after 13 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Meta tech lead who spent more than 13 years at the company has opened up about his journey from working as a DJ to becoming a software engineer, and how shifting priorities at the tech giant eventually culminated in his layoff.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Chen, 38, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, joined Facebook as a contractor in 2012 before moving into a full-time engineering position. He was among the employees affected by Meta&#8217;s latest round of job cuts on May 20, Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Meta tech lead who spent more than 13 years at the company has opened up about his journey from working as a DJ to becoming a software engineer, and how shifting priorities at the tech giant eventually culminated in his layoff. Henry Chen, 38, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, joined Facebook as a contractor in 2012 before moving into a full-time engineering position. He was among the employees affected by Meta&#8217;s latest round of job cuts on May 20, Business Insider reported.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028073","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=1028073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028076,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028073\/revisions\/1028076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}