Departing Twitter employees say layoffs have started as Elon Musk takes over

[dalton99a]

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-say-layoffs-have-started-as-elon-musk-takes-over.html

Departing Twitter employees say layoffs have started as Elon Musk takes over
Published Fri, Oct 28 2022 1:36 PM EDT Updated 14 Min Ago

On Elon Musk’s first day in control of Twitter, the company has started laying off employees, including data engineers, self-identified former employees told CNBC.

A person who walked out of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters and identified themselves as a Twitter data engineer said they were just laid off by their director in-person. CNBC was not able to immediately verify the identity of the people who left Twitter’s headquarters and spoke with reporters.

One employee at Twitter, awaiting information about layoffs or projects, told CNBC they were in the dark for the most part. Musk was meeting with relatively low ranking engineering managers, this person noted —a welcome gesture to some. Press reports before the deal closed said that Musk had planned cuts as deep as 75% of headcount.





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Perhaps Putin can send far more cost-effective and suitable replacements from Russia

[kimbutgar]

1. When Musk announced the takeover,if I was a Twitter employee I would have started looking for a new

Job then and there. But what happens when he fires so many people that the website doesn’t work anymore or the site crashes and theres no software engineers to fix it.

I hope this Twitter takeover destroys mucks finances.