Overview
- Meta carried out a major restructuring in mid‑May that eliminated about 8,000 jobs and reassigned roughly 7,000 employees into new AI teams.
- Public filings show the cuts were concentrated in California and Washington, and more than 1,400 managers — including many software engineering managers — were among those let go.
- Engineers moved into the new Applied AI unit describe menial, repetitive tasks and low morale, with one employee hijacking a livestreamed meeting to shout at an AI executive.
- Over 1,600 employees signed an internal petition opposing a proposed program to collect clicks and keystrokes for AI training, prompting Meta to scale back data collection and offer limited pause options.
- Zuckerberg’s June 12 memo acknowledged execution errors, pledged no more companywide layoffs this year, set steps to reduce manager spans, boost team budgets, and host a companywide AI hackathon in July as short‑term fixes.