A former meta-recruiter has revealed she did “nothing” for the struggling tech company while raking in a $190,000 salary months before Mark Zuckerberg weeded thousands from the workforce.
Taking to TikTok to reminisce about her time in Silicon Valley, Madelyn Machado recalled that the firm’s approach to work “blew my mind” and she “did nothing” during her six months at the company.
The recruiter, amazingly, claimed that her managers told her that she didn’t even expect that of her, even though her role required her to recruit new staff.
“We were expected to hire someone for the first six months, not even the first year,” she said. “That’s what they tell you when you start.”
Her admission comes after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday that another 10,000 jobs will be cut from the company, adding to the 11,000 laid off in December.
Former meta-recruiter Madelyn Machado revealed that the tech company’s approach to work “blew me away.”
Mark Zuckerberg, pictured in March 2022, has announced he will cut his workforce by a further 10,000 people after laying off 11,000 just five months ago
In response to a viewer who asked what Meta employees did during their work day, Machado said their instructions not to hire anyone while they work as a recruiter “blew my mind.”
“Perfect, I’ll just put up with this for a year,” she continued. “Obviously I didn’t make it that far.”
Machado, who worked at Meta from September 2021 to February 2022 according to her LinkedIn profile, said Meta bosses instead expect their employees to just keep “learning.”
“They have really amazing onboarding and training, the best onboarding and training I’ve seen from any company,” she said. “It could have been better, but it was still very thorough.
“The expectation when you start is really that you just learn and you absorb everything… but the best thing we did, that was the crazy part, was we had so many team meetings.
“Why are we meeting? We’re not hiring anyone,” she added. “I was also on a team where everyone was new, so none of us hired anyone.
“I really miss it, I haven’t done shit.”
The latest job cuts at Meta, which shrunk the workforce by 13 percent, came as CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought to regain the tech giant’s struggling revenue streams.
After reportedly pouring at least $10 billion into the development of the “metaverse” over the past two years, he has announced multiple rounds of layoffs to salvage his bottom line.
Confirming the mass layoffs this month, Zuckerberg said, “Overall, we expect to reduce our team size by approximately 10,000 people and close approximately 5,000 additional open positions that we have not yet hired.
“It’s going to be tough and there’s no getting around it. It means saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been part of our success.’
Mary Prescott has slammed Meta’s “cold and corporate” firing system after she was fired from her role as a software development recruiter at the tech firm
Meta has embarked on several austerity measures in recent months after losing billions in value over the past year
While Machado seemed in good spirits as she recalled her time at Meta, another recruiter who recently lost her job condemned the company for its “cold and corporate” firing process.
Mary Prescott worked at Meta for 10 months as a software development recruiter before receiving the dreaded email informing her that she had been laid off due to the company’s hiring freeze.
Sharing her experience to Business Insider, she revealed that she felt “the guilt of the survivors” after the tech company began laying off employees in recent months.
Prescott, who has worked as a recruiter at various technology companies for the past nine years, said: “I definitely had survivability guilt. I felt terrible for everyone who was fired after investing a lot of time and expertise in meta.
She added that she began anticipating the layoffs after Zuckerberg announced that 2023 would be his “year of efficiency.”
“We’ve been on the edge of our seats since that announcement,” she said. “We knew there would be more layoffs so it wasn’t a total shock but the way it was done felt very cold and corporate.”
Zuckerberg also appeared to be preparing his employees for their impending layoffs by giving poor performance reviews to thousands of employees in the previous months.
He has come under fire after pouring billions into his “metaverse,” which is said to have lost $80 billion in value in the last year alone.
According to Nasdaq, the company has posted an operating loss of nearly $24 billion over the past two years, prompting Zuckerberg to embark on a series of cost-cutting measures to offset its declining profit.