Meta's $400K–$1M+ Retainer Equity Can't Halt Its Self-Made Resignation Wave
After cutting 10% of staff and force-reassigning engineers to data labeling, Meta is now losing senior engineers it never bothered countering before. The company is offering IC6+ staffers $400K-to-$1M+ retainer equity grants to stay — only for engineers to use the number to get Google and Anthropic to outbid Meta. Confirmations suggest the retention bid is already failing.