Meta paid a sky-high salary to an employee she didn’t need to avoid competition

Targetparent company facebookwould have paid a salary of $285,000 Madeleine Machado to keep her in the company, despite the fact that during her work there she did not perform the functions for which she was hired. A former recruiter for the company said the tech firm hired her as part of a strategy to keep competitors from hiring her, and that this also applies to other positions.

As he explained through a video posted on his account tik tak, Machado started working on Target in the fall of 2021 and agreed to a salary of $285,000 per year, which is an exorbitant figure for this position. From what she mentions, the company has made it clear to her that it does not expect her or other recruiters to hire new employees in their first 6 months or even their first year of employment.

Juicy pay for not doing their part

Although it looks impressive Machado stressed that some other colleagues who also had this role in the Target They claimed that they had not recruited a single person for several years. In other words, tech firm recruiters, despite not performing the functions they were hired for, were bound to receive a large salary each month. “The cards were revealed, so I got out of there”said a former Meta employee.

Machado explained that, since he did not perform his functions during working hours, he used all the time spent in Target continue to learn and continue to prepare professionally, as only possible in a company “Big Technologies”. “They have an amazing onboarding and learning system, the best I’ve seen in any company”said the woman.

Meta isn’t the only tech firm doing this kind of thing.

Although it may seem that the fact of hiring a person not to perform their functions is only a matter of Target, the truth is that nothing is further from reality. Movement Experts “Big Technologies” They note that these companies often recruit workers who are destined to do nothing to prevent their competitors from recruiting them into their ranks.

With this strategy, companies accumulate as much talent as possible in order to prevent them from working with competitors. “They hire everyone, whether they need it or not, just to have a talent pool. They can afford it”said Val Kataevtechnology Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal.

Except, Vijay Govindarajan – teacher at Dartmouth Taka Business School- mention that these signatures “hired before it was needed” because, thus, “Big Technologies” they simply had to spend several million dollars a year recruiting new talent, keeping it in reserve in case of need. In fact, even if they never needed them, they could block their migration into the ranks of their rivals.

However, with the bad economic situation that the giants like Amazon, Microsoft and already mentioned Targetthere are fewer of them “Big Technologies” that they can afford to keep so many “ghost jobs” and that is why they have laid off thousands of workers in recent months.

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