Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by magicalist on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:47PM (#45673463)

> More likely: people in charge change, and they usually want “their people” around

Also, planning reorgs is a ton of work when you never bothered to learn what anyone does and have no real vision for what they should be doing.

If your paycheck goes up no matter what, why not just fire a bunch of them, shamelessly rehire the ones who turned out to be essential (luckily the job market isn't great), declare victory regardless of outcome, and you get to skip all that hard work?

Nevermind long term impacts, you'll probably be gone and a VP at goog or oracle by then!

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by wkat4242 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:41PM (#45675522)

Can you rehire that quickly though? I know where I live the government won't allow you to rehire people you just fired. Because the severance benefits have lower tax requirements and if you could do that you could do it every year as a form of tax evasion.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by kridsdale1 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:58PM (#45675678)

Are you in California?

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by wkat4242 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:52PM (#45676163)

No this was in Europe. I would never work in the US, not even California.

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