New Delhi: Meta is deepening a two-tiered workforce that rewards a small section of AI talent with compensation while leaving the majority of employees facing job insecurity, intensified monitoring, and fading career prospects, a recent Bloomberg column said. The report portrays the social media giant as a prime example of how the AI revolution is creating new internal class divisions rather than flattening them.
The analysis found that Big Tech’s pursuit of artificial intelligence is producing a “K-shaped company.”“Those who are part of the upper leg of the “K” are the AI elite, ascendant and thriving as they expand their paychecks and prestige,” wrote Beth Kowitt, a columnist for Bloomberg covering corporate America. “Those on the lower leg are treated as disposable — their futures more uncertain, their power waning.”
Meta has aggressively recruited top talent, with some packages for high-level AI researchers and engineers exceeding $200 million, as seen in poaching deals like that of Apple’s AI executive Ke Yang. According to various compensation surveys, total pay for top AI talent at companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI often ranges from $500,000 to several million annually, including equity, far outpacing average software engineers.
