New records show thousands of Bay Area employees are on Meta’s chopping block, all part of a 10% layoff announced last week expected to affect 8,000 worldwide.
Three WARN filings released Thursday reveal a larger swath of engineers laid off as the company pivots to artificial intelligence. Affected employees include 2,212 workers at the company’s headquarters at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park, 313 workers at its 1180 Discovery Way, Sunnyvale, office, and 74 at its 12105 East Waterfront Drive, Playa Vista, office in Los Angeles County.
The largest layoffs appear to be software engineers in Menlo Park across Meta’s biggest social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. These include major cuts to teams responsible for its business-facing AI products integrated in those apps, like BizAI and Core Ads. Elsewhere in the company, three chef positions were cut in the “Data Center & Pastry Culinary Team Group.”…