A former employee of Meta spilled the tea, claiming that her entire team was often caught "doing nothing" because there simply "wasn't enough work" to go around.
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg needs to step up his game and figure out how to properly hire and manage a team.
MSN reported that Maddie Machado, who joined as a talent sourcer in 2021, told the outlet that the Facebook owner had an "inefficient process" to recruit staff.
"I wasn't just sitting around and not doing anything for $200,000; it was a whole team of recruiters doing nothing because of an inefficient process," she said. She added that there "really wasn't enough work" for her team.
Machado's comments come as Meta began a new round of layoffs this week. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced it was cutting 11,000 jobs in November, followed by a further 10,000 in March. Insider analysis shows it's cut almost a quarter of its workforce since last year.
The former recruiter said her team were each tasked with speaking to up to five potential hires a week, but that most couldn't reach their targets.
"I knew that when I started – they had way too many recruiters for the little talent that's out there. How many times can you reach out to the same thousand people?" she said.
Machado previously told Insider that she outlined the employee benefits she received at Meta on her TikTok account, in a video that's since been deleted. She included that she received an annual wellness stipend of $3,000 as a work-from-home perk before she was fired in February 2022.
Machado, who now runs her own recruitment company, shared why she was fired in a TikTok video last month. She says she handed in her resignation after a meeting with the firm's legal team about her TikTok videos. They told her the videos were a "conflict of interest" and she was fired days later.
Good grief...
Meta sounds like an absolute mess!
Zuckerberg and his team really need to have a "come to Jesus" moment it seems.
