Jaguar Land Rover to recruit fired Twitter and Facebook workers

JAGUAR Land Rover (JLR) said it is looking to recruit workers who have been fired by technology companies such as Meta and Twitter to fill digital and engineering vacancies.

The luxury carmaker wants to hire about 800 workers across the UK, US, Ireland, India, China and Hungary, JLR said on Friday (Nov 18). The jobs are in areas including autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, electrification, cloud software, data science and machine learning, it added.

Tech companies are trimming staff and slowing hiring, as they face higher interest rates and sluggish consumer spending, as well as a strong US dollar. Facebook parent Meta is cutting about 11,000 jobs, the first major round of layoffs in the social media company’s history, while Twitter under new owner Elon Musk has imposed deep cuts and has had many of its workers quit.

JLR, owned by India’s Tata Motors, said the tech workers it is looking to recruit have skills that are essential to develop and build the carmaker’s next generation of electric cars. BLOOMBERG