She was hired in April ( https://wapo.st/3lmVr6w ) with promises that it would be fully funded for the entire duration of the 12 months (appears to be the standard for a recruiter).
It's been done before. If Google hired the guys who made ChatGPT and put them on production support or anything, they wouldn't be scared for their existence right now. In tech, it only takes a handful of people to put you out of business in a few years, and you'd never see it coming. The corpses of once great tech companies are many: MySpace, Yahoo, Sun, etc.
I would argue the tech giants aren't so much afraid of each other, but upstarts out of nowhere that makes their business obsolete.
> Brit Levy, 35, was eager to join Meta’s paid training program for aspiring human resources managers last year because she wanted to gain a foothold in the recruiting field and help other military families find jobs in the lucrative tech sector.
> Levy, who is Mexican American, agreed to start the 12-month gig in April after she checked with Meta that her position would be secure for the duration of the program despite the company’s financial challenges. She was told that the program, which aimed to improve the pipeline of recruiters who focus on diversity, was fully funded for the year.
> About six months later, Meta laid off Levy and most of the other participants in her program, along with 13 percent of its full-time workers, amid falling revenue growth from a sluggish economy and more competition in the social media market.
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This is a training program - Meta should expect that it will require some mentoring.
She was hired in April. This isn't a "just hired before the hiring freeze".
Recruiters are frequently on a 12 month contract. This appears to be industry standard (I've seen it when looking at jobs at other companies too - a quick search shows https://careers.ey.com/ey/job/Toronto-Recruiter-12-Month-Con... https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/NielsenIQ/743999750237276-r... https://careers.edrington.com/job/New-York-Contract-Recruite... )
The contract would have been finished in 4 months. Ending it early when it was said to be fully funded means the original statement was bald faced lie.
This isn't a "she was the only one laid off" - but rather "most of the other participants in her program."
yes. but you can only obliquely hint at it.