Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., left, arrives at federal court in San Jose, California, US, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022.
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As part of Meta’s latest round of job cuts announced in March, the company on Wednesday started laying off employees in technical roles.
Employees with technical backgrounds like user experience, software engineering, graphics programming and other roles announced on LinkedIn that they had been let go by the company on Wednesday morning. A Meta spokesperson confirmed to CNBC the cuts had started.
One employee impacted by the layoffs told CNBC Wednesday’s layoffs also hit product-facing teams and that Meta plans to cut business-facing roles, such as finance, legal and HR, beginning in May. The employee, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said Meta suggested tech teams who weren’t impacted by Wednesday’s cuts may also be included in layoffs next month.
LinkedIn posts indicated that multiple people who worked as gameplay programmers were also affected by the layoffs. Gameplay engineers work on virtual- and augmented-reality products, according to a Meta job listing.
“I woke up this morning to the unfortunate news that I was one of the many laid-off from Meta today,” a Facebook business program manager wrote on Linkedin.
With ad revenue slumping last year and its stock price in freefall, Facebook’s parent announced its first round of layoffs in November, affecting some 11,000 workers. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg then declared 2023 the “year of efficiency,” and proceeded toward a plan of an additional 10,000 job cuts in March, resulting in restructuring costs of between $3 billion and $5 billion.
As Zuckerberg said at the time, the new round of April layoffs targets technical workers. Zuckerberg said cuts in the business groups would take place in late May.
Wall Street has applauded the downsizing. Meta shares have soared 81% this year after losing about two-thirds of their…
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