A former recruiter at Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, revealed that she was paid $190,000 per year to do “nothing.”
Maddie Macho, an employment influencer and job coach, stated in a recent TikTok video that she misses her job at the tech giant because she was paid a lot of money to do nothing.
The recruiter reflected on her six-month stint at Meta in 2021, revealing that she was not permitted to hire anyone during the first six months, so she was simply coasting.
“When I was working at Meta and I was a recruiter and we weren’t expected to hire anyone for the first six months, even the first year.
“This is something they tell you when you start. That really blew my mind, I was like, perfect, I’m just going to ride this out for a year,” she said.
Maddie, on the other hand, explained that she had spent the time going through the company’s “rigorous” onboarding process.
She continued,
“We had so many team meetings. Why are we meeting? We’re not hiring nobody!
“Also I was on a team where everybody was new so none of us were hiring anybody. We were all just trying to figure out things none of us knew the answer to. I’d ask my boss and she’d be like ‘I don’t know’ cos she was there too.”
Her video comes just days after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to lay off another 10,000 employees, following the firing of 11,000 employees in November 2022.
Watch the clip below,
Former Meta employee claims she was paid $190,000 per year to do “nothing” at Facebook
