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I was laid off by Meta and became a boomerang employee 3 years later. Here's why I decided to return.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Devang Sharma returned to Meta for an AI engineering role after being laid off in 2023. He chose Meta over other AI companies due ...
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I was laid off by Meta and became a boomerang employee 3 years later. Here's why I decided to return.

Devang Sharma returned to Meta for an AI engineering role after being laid off in 2023. He chose Meta over other AI companies due to opportunities to build foundational AI models. Sharma advises ...
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I was laid off by Meta and became a boomerang employee 3 years later. Here's why I decided to return.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Devang Sharma, a 27-year-old senior software engineer at Meta, based in Menlo Park, CA. The following has been edited for length and clarity. The ...