Musk did not fire a bunch of engineers, that’s why Twitter will continue to fully function. He literally fired people involved in the censorship, which, horrifyingly, happened to be the biggest chunk of employees.
From what I have read, engineers were included in force reduction. Initially, computer engineers and programmers flooded into Twitter from the other Musk companies to examine things like code, security and employee productivity. Focus on productivity for example.
Change logs track when code is changed, what was changed, when the change was implemented, the size of the change and who authored the change. By looking at these kinds of metrics, an individual's productivity can be measured, rated against their peers and measured against outside standards.
Example for two coders/engineers…. Pointdexter averaged 1.5 implemented code changes per year with the most notable one was to change the format of banners used in the yoga rooms. Delbert averaged 10 implemented code changes per year with the most notable one reducing CPU time by 0.1 microseconds per unit processed. This reduced energy costs by $20M the first year.
One engineer fired in the initial round. The second retained by the new ownership pending further review.
“Musk did not fire a bunch of engineers, that’s why Twitter will continue to fully function. He literally fired people involved in the censorship, which, horrifyingly, happened to be the biggest chunk of employees.”
Correct. He told everyone to submit a page of the code they developed. He then had his people (from Tesla, mainly) review the code and if it sucked, they were gone, if it looked good, they were ‘interviewed’ to make sure they understood it. If they didn’t fully understand it, they figured it was from someone else, and the person was fired.
EXCELLENT housecleaning by Elon.