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- BI obtained internal documents showing which teams and roles were hardest hit by Meta’s cuts.
- The data shows teams under Tom Alison, Facebook’s head, were most affected, with 335 job cuts.
- Meta began cutting thousands of jobs last week, affecting roughly 5% of its workforce.
Newly obtained internal documents show which teams were hit the hardest in Meta’s recent job cuts.
The tech giant began cutting thousands of jobs last week, affecting roughly 5% of its workforce.
Business Insider obtained 30 records sent to affected workers along with their separation agreements, offering a picture of how Meta is reshaping its workforce.
The materials include the number of employees affected, broken down by Meta’s business groups, their teams, and job titles. They also list the vice president or senior manager to whom each group reports to. Additional records may exist that BI has not been able to verify.
Meta said in the documents that it provided this information under federal law to help affected employees decide whether to sign their separation agreements.
The records list 3,115 employees affected by the cuts, which appears to represent a significant majority of the 5% of employees who were laid off.
Among the 30 group documents reviewed by BI, the teams reporting to Tom Alison, head of Facebook, saw the highest impact, with 335 employees affected.
The next-largest cuts came from Meta’s Horizon team, which works on its virtual reality platform. A total of 244 employees in the group reporting to Vishal Shah, vice president of Metaverse under the Reality Labs division — the unit overseeing Meta’s VR and AR effort — were affected.
Other heavily affected teams included those under Carmine Arabia, vice president of devices at Reality Labs, where 195 roles in business analytics, engineering, technical sourcing, and technical program management were eliminated.
The group previously led by Lori Goler, former head of people, saw 189 administrative roles cut.
Additionally, 186 roles tied to Meta’s data center strategy, design, engineering, and construction teams were eliminated. The group reported to Rachel Peterson, Meta’s vice president for data center strategy.
Meanwhile, the organization under Peng Fan, vice president of engineering for monetization, saw 180 cuts, primarily affecting software engineers.
Fan recently said in an internal memo that Meta plans to expedite the hiring process of machine learning engineers through February and March. The move comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would backfill roles it cut that were meant to target “low performers.”
The group reporting to Alex Himel, vice president of augmented reality had 141 employees cut; they mostly worked on wearables.
Meta declined to comment.
Two of the seven groups most affected by the cuts are tied to Meta’s Reality Labs unit, which was recently reorganized and positioned as a core part of the business.
In a November memo obtained by BI, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth called 2025 a make-or-break year for the company’s metaverse ambitions.
Bosworth emphasized that this year is critical for proving whether the metaverse will be a visionary feat or a “legendary misadventure.”
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