Internal memos show that Meta is increasing the employment of engineers to cut thousands of jobs. Meta said he wants to “promote” machine learning engineers in the coming weeks.
Meta is increasing the employment of machine learning engineers while cutting thousands of jobs.
Last month, Meta said it would eliminate about 5% of its workforce. This could mean that around 4,000 employees have lost their jobs. On Monday, the social media giant began notifying affected workers in the US, Europe and Asia.
In an internal memo announcing the cut, Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg said “we have decided to raise the bar for performance management and move out of low performance faster.”
Zuckerberg also said Meta will fill these roles this year. The company appears to be currently focusing on hiring engineers in the coming weeks.
Peng Fan, vice president of engineering for monetization, said in a post at Meta’s internal forum workplace on Friday that Meta is needed “to hire more engineers in 2025.” Fans said the company needs to play a business role and the focus is on machine learning engineers.
“We are planning an ML Batch Day interview between February 11th and March 13th (3 batch days per week) to promote recruitment in these areas,” he wrote.
Fans will add calls to existing interview trained employees to sign up to assist with 420 software engineer interviews, 225 software engineer behavior interviews, and 50 machine learning system design interviews. did.
Zuckerberg told investors in Meta’s latest revenue call that AI is key to the company’s revenue strategy. Meta expects to spend $65 billion on AI this year.
In another post about the workplace last week, Instagram Head of Engineering Nam Nguyen said that interviewers should aim to have two interviews a week.
“This is necessary in light of recent announcements and evolving recruitment goals,” Nguyen writes.
“In addition to this goal, we have increased our interviewer pool by 20% and have reached 70% interview acceptance rates. As it continues through 2025, interviews are once again a top priority for META.”
Meta did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.
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Fixed: February 10, 2025 – Previous versions of this story have mistaken names for Meta Executive Penhwan and Nam Nu Nguyen.
