Meta reportedly maintains secretive lists of former employees who are prohibited from returning to the company.
Some former employees toldBusiness Insiderthey reapplied not because they like Meta but because the pay was good.
Its the worst company Ive ever worked for, one said.
Meta maintains an internal “do not rehire” list that prevents former employees from rejoining the company.Smith Collection/Gado/Getty
But they also pay the best.
If I could get in there for a couple more years and make bank, I would do it.
Meta, for its part, insists there are checks and balances in place concerning who gets added.
It seemed, they said, that they were running into a mechanism outside normal recruiting tools.
Maintaining such lists is not considered illegal unless it over-indexes on a protected class, like people of color.
So long as that is not the case, Meta has free reign to add people to such lists.
If anyone from Meta has a better explanation for this phenomena, feel free to get in touch.
We would love to know more.
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