Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
Month after month, message after message, the AI engineer was hearing from Meta recruiters. The recruiters were pestering him to leave his employer and switch over to support the company's AI efforts, and they were offering a sizable salary package to do so. But he wasn't so sure.
The engineer, who works for a startup that was acquired by a leading AI company and requested anonymity from The Verge, said he had heard from friends that the company expected a lot of personal sacrifices in exchange for its high salaries, whether on employees' value systems when it comes to Al or work-life balance. Engineers there, he heard, were working around …