Which teams at Meta were most affected by the Nov 2022 layoffs?

Meta's WARN data uniquely contain team names as well as job titles

Facebook/Meta’s layoff in Nov 2022 affected at least 2746 employees and 6 office locations in California. We that Meta’s WARN filings, uniquely among the companies we have seen, contain the name of the teams as well- over 700 team names are listed in the records. 

Some preliminary observations:

• AI systems and accelerated platforms” team had the most engineers laid off out of all the teams

• Almost 1000 of the 2746 recorded layoffs were software engineers of some sort

• More layoffs at Instagram than at WhatsApp

See a detailed analysis on the WARNTracker.com blog here: https://warntracker.com/blog/meta-team-analysis