'Cruelest tech company': Meta employees claim layoff was 'more about money than performance'

After a fresh round of layoffs, employees at Meta have been taking to public forums to call out the company's leadership over how they were selected for the job cuts. While the tech giant claimed it was undertaking “performance-based layoffs,” several employees claimed they were sacked even when they had no prior history of not meeting the company's performance expectations.

“The hardest part is Meta publicly stating they’re cutting low performers, so it feels like we have the scarlet letter on our backs,” an employee told Business Insider on the condition of anonymity. “People need to know we’re not underperformers.”

On Blind, an anonymous app for verified employees mostly in tech, another employee recently laid off by Meta said that people with almost a decade of experience at Meta were fired. "Dozens of people with pristine history and exceeds rating that took parental or medical leave and got laid off. I didn’t even know this was legal. A lot of people who devoted 8-10 years to the company with multiple AE ruthlessly axed! Seems it was more about money than performance,” they wrote, calling the decision "cruel". “Be careful about joining this company. Zuck doesn’t care about his employees. Only the company.”

“Meta is now the cruelest tech company out there,” wrote a third Meta employee. Joining in the discussion, an Amazon employee wrote that they believed Meta really is only now for young workers without a family who “don’t have anything else to focus on rather than making money.”