Meta employee who admitted she did no work for $190k salary was fired

2023-04-12

Woman who admitted she did no work despite being paid $190,000 by Meta now reveals she was fired for posting on TikTok

Maddie Macho made headlines earlier this month after posting a TikTok admitting she did nothing while working her recruiting job at Meta
Macho, who started in September 2021, received positive feedback when she first began posting, but HR grew hesitant as she continued to post
She was fired in April after having several conversations with HR about her account’s recruiting content

A former Meta employee who admitted she did little work for her $190,000 job has revealed she was fired for posting on TikTok.

Maddie Macho made headlines earlier this month after posting a TikTok admitting she did nothing while working her recruiting job at Meta, which she started in September 2021.

‘We weren’t expected to hire anybody for the first six months, even the first year,’ she said. ‘This is something they tell you when you start,’ she said in the video. ‘This was the crazy part, is that why we had so many team meetings. Why are we meeting? We aren’t hiring anybody,’

Prior to getting her job at Meta, Macho wasn’t very active on TikTok, but had received positive feedback on her video about the company’s benefit package. However, as she began to post more, HR grew more critical of her content and eventually told her to stop.

Now Macho has revealed she was fired from Mark Zuckerberg’s company in February 2022 after she posted about the diversity program that worked to introduce a wider portfolio of candidates to recruiting jobs.

Maddie Macho made headlines earlier this month after posting a TikTok admitting she did nothing while working her recruiting job at Meta, which she started at September 2021

She was fired in February 2022 after several run-ins with HR about her TikTok account

‘I thought it was a really great opportunity, and most of my new followers were diverse candidates, so I wanted to share it. This time didn’t go as well: my boss called me and told me HR wanted me to take it down,’ she told Business Insider. ‘I was so scared. I didn’t want to break any rules, so after that, I decided not to share anything about Meta anymore. I was scared straight.’

‘I continued to post on TikTok, though. I posted general resume tips and shared which companies were hiring or which websites helped with salary negotiations.’

Even though her content strayed away from her own job at Meta, HR still wasn’t too pleased and brought up her account again to her in January.

‘This time, I decided to put in my notice and quit, but then they fired me the next week. They said that my posts were a conflict of interest,’ she told Business Insider.

She went on to be offered a job at LinkedIn, which she accepted, shortly after being fired from Meta. However, she left in April 2022, despite the ‘great culture’ and benefits because her TikTok had grown so much, and she decided it was time to run her own business.

Replying to @laurendaniellehtx those were the days man. *sigh* #meta #layoffs #google #workingintech #metalayoffs

She has since gone on to go to start her own ‘reverse recruiting’ business, which helps people apply for jobs and negotiate salary

She created a ‘reverse recruiting’ business that helps people ‘on their career strategy, resumes, and LinkedIn optimization.’

‘I have a team of seven people, and as part of our services, we apply to jobs for our clients and help them with interview prep and salary negotiations. Now it feels like I get to help people and genuinely change lives,’ she told Business Insider.

Meta’s recent job cuts, which shrunk its workforce by 13 percent, have come as CEO Mark Zuckerberg attempts to recover the tech giant’s struggling revenue streams.

After reportedly pouring at least $10billion into the development of the ‘metaverse’ in the last two years, he has announced several rounds of layoffs to save his bottom line.

Confirming the mass redundancies this month, Zuckerberg said: ‘Overall, we expect to reduce our team size by around 10,000 people and to close around 5,000 additional open roles that we haven’t yet hired.

‘This will be tough and there’s no way around that. It will mean saying goodbye to talented and passionate colleagues who have been part of our success.’

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