Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company that owns the social network of the same name has cut significant jobs. According to the service documentation, with the met According to CNBC, the layoffs have reduced Twitter’s headcount by 80% to just 1,300 full-time employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers.
About 75 employees are on vacation, including about 40 engineers. The company’s employees also include about 1,300 non-working employees who have kept their salary but will no longer be involved in their previous positions on the social network. Many of them resigned when Elon Musk sent out a letter urging company employees to work hard. “long hours” about creating a groundbreaking Twitter 2.0. Additionally, Musk recruited about 130 employees from his companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, and The Boring Company, as well as employees from venture capital funds and other firms, to work on Twitter.
Despite Musk pledging to forego significant cuts, most employees — about 80% — were fired or forced to leave because they disagreed with the new leadership’s policies, including on permanent remote work being introduced under former CEO Jack Dorsey.
Before Musk became the owner of Twitter, the company had about 7,500 employees. There have been rumors beforehand of the upcoming downsizing, which would happen regardless of whether the deal for Musk’s purchase goes through or not. However, Musk reduced Twitter’s headcount far more than many expected. And now, according to a former employee of the company, this can affect the quality of the service against the background of adding new functions.
According to him, the code base of the service is huge and requires knowledge of different platforms and programming languages to support its different areas – for example advertising services. The CNBC interviewee says it will be difficult to train engineers to use the service after so much institutional knowledge has been lost.
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