Musk's Twitter Layoffs

I thought Twitter fired 70% of manpower and still works?

Purely from self interest, I hope this wins over Twitter. So I installed it and made an account.When Elon Musk laid off more than 80% of Twitter's workforce (or maybe 90%, the number is quickly increasing), many people said this would prove that a company needed only a handle of software engineers to be successful. If they are correct, it paints a bleak future where software engineer jobs will be forever cut down. I hope Twitter falls so it proves the reverse: a software company cannot s

I think that Twitter won't fail anytime soon. These rash HR moves probably have a mid-term goal of completely replacing the company personnel. When 95% or so of donations made by Twitter staff went to Democratic party, it is safe to say that his political stance of allowing free speech for all parties will be heavily resented by the current workforce, and might lead to demotivation, low productivity and even sabotage. Replace potentially unloyal people who don't even want to go to the

What happened to all those senior twitter engineers Musk fired a year ago who said twitter would die in a week without them?

Many (newly) former Twitter employees have raised concerns about essential services now left unattended.Reports indicate the internal beta build Twitter instance has slowed down significantly this week -- a sign that services, code, or other essential infrastructure is being neglected.Musk fired half the company and drove two-thirds of the remainder to quit. He's asking the remaining employees to print out their code contributions to prove their worth.These things might not

You're missing a significant bullet point which is that in-between Musk arriving and Twitter employees resigning, Musk fired 50% of the workforce. That seems like a much more significant factor in whether systems can be maintained.

Elon fired half the staff and Twitter is still running.Tells you just how much wasted staff there is at most big companies.

Let's be honest (and no offense to anyone who got fired), but twitter probably had some dead weight to shed. Sadly, I'm sure some quality engineers got the ax too. Way of the world.

Clearly they don't: https://www.businessinsider.com/read-blunt-email-telling-twi...

Devs here and elsewhere desperately wanted Twitter to fail because if Elon showed it was possible to just fire half your employees and actually end up with a better product then the jobs of most people here would be at risk. Now other leaders might think like Elon and end up firing devs en masse as cost cutting in hard times. The truth is there is a lot of bloat in FAANG scale companies. If tomorrow google fired 50% of it's army of tens of thousands of engineers, it wouldn't hurt at al