Posted on 01/22/2023 2:00:04 PM PST by george76
Internal records show that Twitter has shed about 80% of its employees since Elon Musk took over and headcount is hovering around 1,300 working employees today.
fewer than 550 full-time engineers
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In addition to the 1,300 full-time Twitter employees, new owner and CEO Elon Musk has authorized about 130 people from his other companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and The Boring Co., to work for the social media business.
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Twitter’s full-time headcount has dwindled to approximately 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title, according to internal records viewed by CNBC. Around 75 of the company’s 1,300 employees are on leave including about 40 engineers.
The company’s trust and safety team, which makes policy recommendations, design and product changes with the aim of keeping all of Twitter’s users safe, is down to fewer than 20 full-time employees.
Internal records indicate that there are also about 1,400 non-working employees of Twitter who are still being paid, but are no longer expected to fulfill their old responsibilities at the social media company. Many of them resigned when CEO Elon Musk sent out a “pledge” asking them to commit to “hardcore” work at Twitter 2.0 including long hours.
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Under Musk’s management, Twitter has slashed headcount through mass layoffs, other terminations and changes that compelled many to resign, including the end of a work-from-home forever policy that had been put in place under former CEO Jack Dorsey.
Before Musk led a $44 billion leveraged buyout of Twitter last year, Twitter’s headcount stood at about 7,500 employees.
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True dat. Given engineers with actual know-how and automation, 550 seems like a bloated payroll.
550 is still an immense amount for such a lean software-based organization.
Doubt they need anywhere that many
It appears that the front-end timeline stuff runs on AWS, while off-line processing, data analytics, etc is on Google Cloud Platform.
Can someone explain what these engineers are doing?
I am wondering because the code is written and working. Are they doing that many constant modifications?
Can you help a person not involved in that world understand what they actually “do” all day?
If done correctly, you’re absolutely right but unfortunately with that many people, I’m sure some good workers got caught in the shuffle.
Besides NASA, what company needs 500+ engineers?
Might need some old geezer techs soon bump!
;-)
I imagine getting rid of working engineers is a bit more than ticking names off a list. Down to 550? Now let the best separate themselves from the pack and keep however many needed.
I worked at a very large corporation. They could have cut 50% of the engineers and made the other lazy bastards work. And you would have never missed any of them.
Down 550 full-time engineers? I’d say they still have 551 too many.
The fact that the platform is still operating the same as always after reducing the workforce by 80% tells you there were a LOT of utterly useless people at Twitter.
I bet he’s making money.
I’d pay for the ability to edit. ;-D Then I wouldn’t always look so dumb.
That’s the truth.
Twitter last year, Twitter’s headcount stood at about 7,500 employees.
Musk knows how to get rid of overhead and dead weight good deal.
Keeping Twitter running shouldn’t take more than a few hundred engineers.
Of course, I do wonder if they are including contractors in these numbers or just formal employees.
Twitter had a headcount on par with Sallie Mae, which is just insanity to the nth degree.
Agree
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