Which teams at Meta were most affected by the 2022 layoffs?
By Chris Talley, and Steven Zhang
Feb 27, 2023
Meta’s California WARN records from their Q4 2022 layoffs contain 2,746 employees, 6 cities, and 709 team names. This is a sizable portion of the total laid off globally, which was around 11,000 employees
Preliminary analysis
Here are some insights from our preliminary analysis of this dataset.
57 employees from Instagram were laid off
Team | # engineers laid off | # all employees laid off |
Instagram Reels & Camera Group | 5 | 8 |
Instagram Business Experiences Group | 6 | 7 |
BPM FOA - Instagram | 0 | 7 |
Instagram Trust Group | 3 | 5 |
Instagram Business Opportunities Group | 2 | 4 |
Instagram Sharing Group | 4 | 4 |
Instagram Business Recommendations Group | 3 | 4 |
Instagram (CM) General Support Group | 0 | 3 |
Instagram Relevance Group | 2 | 3 |
Instagram Product Foundation Group | 1 | 2 |
Instagram Connections Group | 2 | 2 |
Instagram Creator Monetization Group | 1 | 2 |
Instagram Media Partnerships | 0 | 1 |
Instagram Experience Group | 1 | 1 |
Instagram Ecosystems Group | 0 | 1 |
Instagram Well-being Group | 1 | 1 |
Instagram Admin Group | 0 | 1 |
Instagram Creators & Reels Leadership Group | 0 | 1 |
38 employees from WhatsApp were laid off
Team | # engineers laid off | # all employees laid off |
WhatsApp Customer Operations Group | 0 | 6 |
WhatsApp Biz & Monetization Data Group | 0 | 5 |
WhatsApp Consumer Data Group | 0 | 5 |
WhatsApp Messaging Platform | 3 | 3 |
WhatsApp Business Payments, Checkout and Foundations Group | 3 | 3 |
WhatsApp Design Group | 0 | 2 |
WhatsApp Business Messaging and Commerce Group | 2 | 2 |
WhatsApp Calling Group | 2 | 2 |
WhatsApp RES Group | 0 | 1 |
WhatsApp Content Strategy Group | 0 | 1 |
WhatsApp Program Management | 0 | 1 |
WhatsApp Calling: Platforms | 1 | 1 |
WhatsApp PM Group | 0 | 1 |
WhatsApp Consumer Marketing Group | 0 | 1 |
WhatsApp Product Infra | 1 | 1 |
WhatsApp Privacy & Security Group | 1 | 1 |
WhatsApp Messaging | 1 | 1 |
BMG PMM, WhatsApp Group | 0 | 1 |
“AI systems and accelerated platforms” team had the most engineers laid off out of all the teams
Here’s a list of teams that laid off the most software engineers. One team is definitely the outlier
Team | Number of engineers laid off | Total number of employees laid off |
AI Systems and Accelerated Platforms | 14 | 27 |
ENG Bootcamp Group | 8 | 8 |
Recruiting Products | 7 | 9 |
AI Infrastructure Group | 6 | 6 |
Core Ads: Advertiser Products ENG Group | 6 | 6 |
Communities - Community Builders ENG Group | 6 | 6 |
Data Infra Group | 6 | 7 |
Instagram Business Experiences Group | 6 | 7 |
AI Platform Team Group | 6 | 8 |
VR Consumer Group | 6 | 7 |
AR Glasses ENG Group | 5 | 5 |
Instagram Reels & Camera Group | 5 | 8 |
Horizon Platform Group | 5 | 5 |
Messaging Experiences (MX) ENG Group | 5 | 5 |
Facebook For Business Eng Group | 5 | 5 |
Client Foundation Group | 5 | 5 |
Meta FinTech Engineering Business | 5 | 5 |
Developer Experience and Platforms | 5 | 5 |
AI Research Group | 5 | 11 |
Wrist ENG Group | 5 | 5 |
Connectivity Infrastructure Software Group | 5 | 6 |
Messaging Platform ENG Group | 5 | 5 |
Communities - Participation & Systems ENG Group | 5 | 5 |
VR Foundation Group | 4 | 5 |
Home - Creation ENG Team Group | 4 | 4 |
Productivity Group | 4 | 4 |
XR Tech: XR Immersion | 4 | 4 |
Integrity - FB Integrity ENG Team Group | 4 | 4 |
Business Messaging ENG Group: Experiences and Monetization | 4 | 4 |
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