How safe is your job at Meta Platforms?
Your Engineering job at Meta Platforms in India has a risk score of 44/100 — stable.
The most recent reported layoff hit around 1,395 roles on July 22, 2026. 4 people have reported cuts here in the past 90 days.
Employee sentiment looks relatively steady (based on 7 employee votes plus data signals).
Check the detailed report below for the full breakdown.
No Engineering- or India-specific signals for Meta Platforms yet — showing the company-wide outlook.
Current risk score
0 = safer outlook, 100 = higher layoff risk. Small figure = 7-day change.
Latest confirmed layoff
Confirmed Jul 22, 2026 · WA ESD WARN (historical)
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How's the vibe in Meta Platforms?
3 confirmed layoff event(s), 9,563 affected in last 180 days
-14.4% vs estimates
+21.6% in last 30d
Recent layoff events
Latest disclosed workforce actions affecting this company.
EPS
Est: $7.22
Revenue
EPS
Est: $6.66
Revenue
Meta Platforms layoff risk analysis
Meta Platforms risk trend over the last 90 days
Across the last 81 days of scoring, Meta Platforms's layoff risk eased 16 points, moving from 60 on July 15, 2026 to 44 today. It peaked at 85 on July 23, 2026 and bottomed out at 43 on October 7, 2026, a 42-point spread over the period. That leaves Meta Platforms in the moderate band today, and the size of the swing means the current reading is worth re-checking weekly rather than treating as settled.
Meta Platforms layoff history
PinkSlip has recorded 5 confirmed layoff events at Meta Platforms, running from March 2026 to July 2026. Together they account for roughly 10,463 disclosed roles, or about 13.8% of an estimated 76,000-person workforce. Scoring uses that share rather than the raw number, because the same headcount means very different things at a 10,000-person company and a 200,000-person one. Sources: WA ESD WARN (historical), layoffs.fyi. Recent events weigh more than older ones — each decays on a half-life instead of dropping out on a fixed date — so the most recent filing on July 22, 2026 carries the most weight in today's score.
How Meta Platforms compares to other tech employers
Meta Platforms (META) is a Social Media company tracked as part of the NASDAQ-100 and currently scores 44 out of 100, where 0 is the safest reading and 100 the riskiest. That is riskier than 88% of the 89 tech employers PinkSlip tracks. Over the past week the score held flat, and over the past month it eased 24 points.
What is driving the Meta Platforms score
Meta Platforms's current reading is supported from two independent directions: confirmed public filings, and 4 anonymous reports submitted by people in the past 90 days. Agreement between a public record and first-hand accounts is the strongest configuration the model recognises. Absence of reports is deliberately not treated as evidence of safety — a quiet company and an unobserved one look identical in public data, so the model never discounts risk for silence alone. At this level the signals do not suggest imminent action, though the score is recomputed every morning and a single filing or earnings miss can move it quickly.
Meta Platforms layoff risk — frequently asked questions
Has Meta Platforms had layoffs recently?
PinkSlip has tracked 5 layoff events at Meta Platforms in the past year, the latest on July 22, 2026, totalling roughly 10,463 disclosed roles. Undisclosed headcounts are excluded from that total, so treat it as a floor rather than a full count.
How is the Meta Platforms layoff risk score calculated?
PinkSlip blends 10+ public data sources — historical layoff events, quarterly earnings, hiring and news signals, and anonymous crowd reports — into a single 0–100 layoff risk score. Signals are weighted by how predictive they have been historically, and each one decays on a half-life as it ages rather than expiring on a fixed date — so a layoff announced last month weighs roughly twice as much as the same layoff two months earlier, and fades out gradually instead of disappearing overnight.
How often does the Meta Platforms risk score update?
Every day. An automated job re-scrapes the public sources each morning and recomputes every tracked company's score, so the 7-day movement shown above always compares against freshly ingested data. Quarterly earnings refresh on each company's own reporting schedule.
Where does PinkSlip's Meta Platforms layoff data come from?
The layoff events listed above are sourced from WA ESD WARN (historical), layoffs.fyi. Across all companies PinkSlip aggregates state WARN notices, layoffs.fyi, quarterly earnings filings, and layoff coverage from major business and tech outlets. Everything is public data — no employer submissions, and no paywalled sources.