Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
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Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#2So he gets 4 months of pay, his signing bonus, and all if his shares vest immediately.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#3I 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..)
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#4My sympathies for the gentleman -- but out of curiosity: for cases like this, what "time duration" would be "not surprising"? Even if he had stayed on for one more month, that would have been as shocking as well. Two months? Three?
My suspicion is that there's no time duration within which this wouldn't be an upsetting experience. Perhaps unless we're talking about like a year, which no company would do anyway.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#5So he gets 4 months of pay, his signing bonus, and all if his shares vest immediately.
I’m not knowledgeable about Canadian work visas specifically, but many countries extend them only within the context of specific employment. In other words, he may need to take what he can get, in a rough economy, under immense stress (as someone who has lived in that situation before can attest to), lest he have to go all the way back.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#6I 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..)
He uprooted his life, moved across the globe, then got laid off and is likely facing a prospect of having to leave Canada (not familiar with work visa types there).
This sucks, and the fact "it was bound to happen" (which is incorrect, it's not a law of nature) does not absolve Meta.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#7So he gets 4 months of pay, his signing bonus, and all if his shares vest immediately.
> and all if his shares vest immediately
I don't think so. I believe they only get the November 15, 2022 vesting.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#8I 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..)
He uprooted his life, moved across the globe, then got laid off and is likely facing a prospect of having to leave Canada (not familiar with work visa types there). This sucks, and the fact "it was bound to happen" (which is incorrect, it's not a law of nature) does not absolve Meta.
Exactly what I was going to say.We need to have empathy every once in a while. 11K people being fired from Meta seems abstract but these are 11K families that have been at least temporarily disrupted.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#9This 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.
Re: Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
#10I 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.