Maddie Machado, an ex-employee of Meta, wanted to set the facts straight about the tech industry and its opaque hiring practices. So, as one does, she posted some thoughts on the internet.
A sign is posted in front of Meta headquarters on April 28, 2022 in Menlo Park, California. Meta has recently scrapped a large portion of its office space in San Francisco.
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The series of TikToks she shared in mid-March, which recounted her five-month stint at Meta as a recruiter who, as she put it, was paid $190,000 "to do nothing," ended up going viral — and received such intense media scrutiny and alternating waves of anger and commiseration on her account that she eventually turned off commenting on the videos entirely.
But her brief clips don’t tell the entire story... Read more »
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