India, May 22 -- A former Meta engineer claimed that the tech giant contacted him for an interview in the same week it laid off 8,000 employees. The executive shared the counterintuitive move online, fueling a massive discussion about the broken nature of modern tech recruitment.

"Meta reached to interview me for a principal role the same week they decided to layoff 8,000 people!" a former corporate employee turned entrepreneur wrote on X.

The tech founder continued, "I'm sure there was at least 1 out of those 8,000 people who got let go who would've been a good fit for the role they wanted to hire me for. A few of my staff engineer friends got let go so I know this is true."

He explained, "Instead they: axe everybody, treat them like ...