Ex-Meta engineer alleges non-Chinese layoffs amid Mandarin-dominated teams
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A former Meta engineer, Jeremy Bernier, claims race-based discrimination at Meta, saying teams were 90% Chinese and that non-Chinese employees were routinely excluded and targeted in layoffs; he describes Mandarin-only informal conversations and social exclusion, urges Meta to enforce English-speaking policies and diversify leadership, but doubts real change will occur while the leadership remains ethnically homogeneous. Bernier was among Meta's 8,000 layoffs on May 20.
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