Tech workers feel jilted and betrayed by how firms like Meta and Google handled layoffs. HR professionals say the issue isn't malice, it's just poor planning.

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Former employees of companies like Google and Meta say they were treated poorly in the layoff process. HR pros say it wasn't out of malice, but rather logistical challenges.

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A former Twitter engineer said they watched colleagues 'drop like flies' from a virtual meeting during Elon Musk's mass layoffs

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A former software engineer at Twitter said they were laid off after working on Elon Musk's Twitter Blue all night long.

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I'm a tech worker whose job offer got rescinded. Looking back, I might have overlooked some red flags about the company.

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Sometimes it's easy to miss red flags.

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A 2nd round of layoffs at Meta and Amazon shows companies are taking back their power — and they may not stop there

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the company would lay off 9,000 employees, on top of an earlier cut of 18,000.

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Amazon and Meta's 48,000 job cuts usher in Big Tech's new mantra: Revenue per employee

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A popular post on Blind says all tech workers who got jobs during the pandemic were 'charity cases,' but getting hired now at a big tech company will actually mean something

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Tech CEOs like Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's Sundar Pichai have admitted that their overhiring during the pandemic is partly to blame for mass layoffs now.

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A Meta worker found out she'd lost her 'dream job' in an email sent at 5:55 a.m. and said 'it's been a tough morning'

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Mark Zuckerberg announced a further 10,000 job cuts on Tuesday.

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I was just laid off from Meta. We knew more cuts were coming before Mark Zuckerberg even told us, and the way the layoffs were handled was very cold.

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Mary Prescott says that she and her teammates preemptively said their goodbyes to each other last week in anticipation of Meta's latest layoffs.

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The tech layoff contagion is hitting automakers — but it's not like what's happening at Google, Meta, and Microsoft

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Layoffs are hitting the auto industry.

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Hundreds of Google workers in Zurich walked out after 200 of their colleagues got laid off

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Google staff walked out in Zurich on Wednesday.

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