Meta layoff breakdown of visa vs US nationals in my team
Barely survived the Meta layoff yesterday and here's an interesting stat and intentionally keeping the numbers a little vague. So we are in pods and not teams anymore where my direct manager had 40 - 50 reports, let's call this as Team A. I joined Team A about less than a year ago from Team B where the manager had about 30 - 40 direct reports. Both managers are American citizens and the team mix combined was about 40% people on visa. Yesterday we lost about 15 people combined from Team A and Team B. I don't know the criteria for the layoffs but one thing for sure is that the chopping list was decided way high up and not on M2/D1 level. Anyway, here's the interesting part, guess how many of those 15 ish people were on visa vs Americans? 0 on visa and all of them were American citizens/green card holders!