Meta has begun saying goodbye to some technical workers, following plans announced in March to lay off 10,000 employees.
, the company on Wednesday started laying off employees in technical roles.
Employees with backgrounds in technical backgrounds like user experience, software engineering, graphics programming and other roles announced on LinkedIn that they had been let go by the company on Wednesday morning. A Meta spokesperson confirmed to CNBC the cuts had started. One employee impacted by the layoffs told CNBC Wednesday's layoffs also hit product-facing teams and that Meta plans to cut business-facing roles, such as finance, legal and HR, beginning in May. The employee, who spoke under condition of anonymity, said Meta suggested tech teams who weren't impacted by Wednesday's cuts may also be included in layoffs next month.
LinkedIn posts indicated that multiple people who worked as gameplay programmers were also affected by the layoffs. Gameplay engineers work on virtual- and augmented-reality products,"I woke up this morning to the unfortunate news that I was one of the many laid-off from Meta today," a Facebook business program manager
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