Goodbye, Work Life Balance.
Jeremy Bernier, a former Facebook Front-End engineer, came out in a post recounting the Meta Layoff experience, claiming that within some key departments like the advertising team and the market research team, there is a very high proportion of Chinese employees, perhaps up to 90%, so that the internal work culture has changed markedly.
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He stated that the atmosphere in the company was so full of competition, pressure and insecurity that it was compared to Squid Games because employees had to try to survive multiple waves of evaluation systems, team competition and layoffs.
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One of the points that has been discussed a lot is that some teams have a "996" culture, or work from 9: 00 a.m. to 3: 00 p.m., six days a week, a form of hard work that is often linked to Chinese tech companies, which they view as gradually becoming more influential in American tech companies.
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He also alleged that in the past layoffs, many of the discharged were non-Chinese employees, for example, that in the group he knew, six of the seven discharged people were non-Chinese, even though the team had a high proportion of Chinese employees.
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Another issue that heated the drama was communication within the team, with Bernier claiming that after the official meeting, many colleagues would immediately turn to Mandarin, causing employees who did not understand Chinese to feel barred from the conversation circle and potentially disadvantaged in terms of information, team relationships and organizational growth opportunities.
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So this drama is starting to be seen as no longer just a race or layout issue, but as reflecting a big question about the potentially changing "Silicon Valley workplace culture."
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Throughout the years, American tech companies tried to create an image of flexibility, open work, and maintaining a life balance with work, but in the AI era, where competition has intensified, many companies have begun to return to focusing on "speed" and "efficiency" rather than job suitability.
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It began to be questioned that the company might not care about where its employees come from, but choose people who are more hardworking, more patient and more productive, even if that gradually changed the traditional corporate culture of Silicon Valley.
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Some have even called this phenomenon "Shenzhen-ification," or the rise of US tech companies with a culture more like Chinese tech companies, intense internal competition, longer working hours, and constant pressure to create work to speed up AI competition.
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The key question is not only "who is laid off," but "is this the new direction of the tech industry?" and whether Silicon Valley is exchanging American work culture in exchange for global efficiency and competitiveness.
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However, all of these allegations also come from the perspective of a former employee unilaterally, and there is still no public evidence to confirm that Meta actually had racial discrimination, while Meta itself has yet to formally come forward to clarify the issue.
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Source: HKEPC, Economic Times












































































