INDIAN H-1B META EMPLOYEE INTERVIEWED ON LAYOFFS
We reported last week on how a user took to Reddit to claim META focused on retaining H-1B and other visa talent.
Now we have more.
Meera, an H-1B who made it through the May layoffs, talks with New Delhi TV about what the experience was like.
She is currently on maternity leave. She says "I felt anxious throughout the entire period because being laid off would have meant spending the remainder of my baby bonding time searching for a new job or having to return to India, instead of focusing on my baby's healthy growth and my own recovery".
"Uprooting our lives at that stage would have been incredibly difficult and caused immense anxiety," she said.
No mention of how the layoffs may have impacted the lives of her American counterparts and the impact and anxiety on their families.
She continued. Her team was gone, and with them, her managerial role. She has since been moved to an individual contributor position, a change consistent with reports that Meta has been moving toward a flatter organizational model, one where fewer managers oversee larger technical teams.
She returns to work in two to three months, to responsibilities that are still being defined.
A few years back, META agreed to pay more than $14 million to settle a Justice Department lawsuit alleging that it "refused to consider" U.S. workers for jobs it earmarked for H-1B holders who were seeking green cards.
Meta did not disclose how many of the latest laid-off workers are visa holders.
Until congress passes law requiring them to break down these figures during mass layoffs, we may never know and have to continue to rely on Reddit and anonymous interviews.