Meta headcount down 15% to 66,775 as investor recounts moonlighting engineers making $800K
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-22
Investor Rob Leclerc shares a due-diligence story from two years ago: a startup whose Meta-employed cofounder built the MVP working only 15 hours/week at Meta, with a contractor — a current Meta employee making $800K/year — also working just 10-15 hours/week there. "Many such cases."
The post quotes Meta's latest earnings: headcount of 66,775 as of September 30, 2026, down 15% YoY — with the white-collar job market described as BBQ chicken. Mass layoffs alongside widespread moonlighting paint a picture of how underutilized big-tech white-collar roles can be.
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