A former recruiter at Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has revealed that she was paid $190,000 per annum to do ‘nothing’.
In a recent video posted on TikTok, Maddie Macho, an employment influencer and job coach, stated 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, and revealed that she was not allowed to hire anyone in the first six months so she was just 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 however explained that she spent the time undergoing the company’s “rigorous” onboarding process.
She added,
“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,
