The company confirmed last month that it was planning to trim about 5 per cent of its “lowest performers” and backfill at least some of the positions. The Friday memo, in which Gale referred to the cuts as “performance terminations”, was first reported by The Information.
Unlike with previous company-wide layoffs, Meta was planning to keep its offices open on Monday and would not issue any updates providing further details on the decisions, Gale said in her post.
A separate memo, posted by VP of Engineering for Monetization Peng Fan also on Friday, asked staffers to assist with an expedited hiring process for machine learning engineers and other “business critical” engineering roles.
That process would take place between Feb 11 and Ma 13, Fan said in that post.
“Thank you for your continued support in helping us achieve our accelerated hiring goals, and better align with our company’s priorities for 2025.”
