I went from wedding DJ to Meta engineer, then was laid off after 13 years. My last years there brought constant change.

Henry Chen spent more than 13 years at Facebook and Meta before being laid off in May. Henry Chen Henry Chen went from wedding DJ to Meta engineer before being laid off after 13 years. He taught himself to code, rising from conference room technician to tech lead. Chen shared how he's navigated his job search since being laid off in May. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Henry Chen, a former Meta tech lead who was laid off in May. He's 38 and lives in the San Francisco Bay…