So he gets 4 months of pay, his signing bonus, and all if his shares vest immediately.
The bigger issue is that he is likely now without a work visa and has to scramble to avoid deportation.
Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
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#13This happens a lot in my country. Eastern Europeans on temporary contracts and company housing (and we use the word house very liberally it is usually just a bed) end up on the streets when fired. They don't get help from the government because no passport. The socialist welfare state cannot be extended to foreigners or it would run out of € and the temp agencies take no responsibility.
Which country?
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and all if his shares vest immediately I don't think so. I believe they only get the November 15, 2022 vesting.
which if there's a 1 year cliff, means he didn't have a vesting date then....
A (vesting) cliff doesn't mean you have to wait 1 year for the vesting, it means that your vesting significantly reduces after 1 year.
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#16I mean, if it was just the title that happened, but actually the big layoffs coincided with the person moving from India to Canada, thus something like this was bound to happen. Do we really need to drum up animosity towards Meta that bad? (They already do it without needing to add a click bait twist on top..)
Are you trying to make a distinction without a difference? Nope, hiring for a role you expect to cut at the same time is not the decent or even sane thing to do.
I think not many people would have known until the last minute
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#17So he gets 4 months of pay, his signing bonus, and all if his shares vest immediately.
I wouldn't be so certain that his contract is as good as contract of US citizen working for Meta. Whole point of hiring and relocating people from abroad is that they have much weaker negotiation position so they usually being paid much less.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#18This happens a lot in my country. Eastern Europeans on temporary contracts and company housing (and we use the word house very liberally it is usually just a bed) end up on the streets when fired. They don't get help from the government because no passport. The socialist welfare state cannot be extended to foreigners or it would run out of € and the temp agencies take no responsibility.
Which country?
From the description, I would assume Germany, since that's precisely what happens here. But I can also imagine Germany is not the only state that allows its companies to act like this.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#19This happens a lot in my country. Eastern Europeans on temporary contracts and company housing (and we use the word house very liberally it is usually just a bed) end up on the streets when fired. They don't get help from the government because no passport. The socialist welfare state cannot be extended to foreigners or it would run out of € and the temp agencies take no responsibility.
If you pay for somebody to relocate to you, you should be legally required to pay for them to relocate back as well.
This should have broad political appeal for the obvious reasons.