Meta laid off 8000 employees in a single day, sent dismissal emails at 4am and monitored retained employees to train AI According to Beating monitoring, Meta will lay off 8000 employees on May 20, 2026. Several employees disclosed that their dismissal emails were sent out at 4 am on the same day, and the company had previously required all employees to work from home. The list of laid-off engineers includes IC4 level high-performance engineers who sleep less than 4 hours a day, frequently submit code at 3am, and have no PIP records. The computers of the remaining employees who have not been laid off have been installed with monitoring software. Internal employee Marco pointed out that the company is tracking the operational trajectory of retained employees to train AI, with the goal of using these AI to further replace existing positions. Meta is currently in a period of record profits. Former employee Jeremy Bernier confirmed that internal Stack Ranking is still being implemented, and a large number of junior to senior engineers and H1B visa holders who are burdened with mortgages are still directly victims of driving up stock prices after working overtime without any bottom line. [Original link]