India, May 17 -- A former Meta employee has revealed that workers at the tech giant stuffed their bags with free goodies on the eve of the company's first major layoff, describing the atmosphere inside the company as "almost like doomsday". Adel Wu, who said she witnessed multiple rounds of layoffs during her final year at Meta, shared a post on X recalling the tense environment that gripped employees before one particularly large round of job cuts.

Her post comes shortly before Meta is all set to cut 8,000 jobs on May 20. Wu implied that little has changed since 2021 when it comes to the tense atmosphere preceding layoffs at Mark Zuckerberg's company.

Meta cut 11,000 jobs in 2022 - the first in the company's 18-year history. The 2022 l...