Twitter is already built and in production.
Guess it is back to the FBI for them then....
Sounds like Elon wants to make money.
When you add this recent number of firings to the 3,700 he fired back in November, it looks like he plugged that hole and then some.
And by cleaning out the lazy latte crowd, he probably improved performance significantly for those who remained.
sounds about right...
it’s not a self driving car or self landing rocket or something...
So once which took 7500 workers now require 1500 workers? Very interesting.... At $250,000 per worker (should be close when adding payroll cost in California), that’s a saving of 1.5 billion dollars a year. Nice job Elon 🤣🤣🤣
I wonder if Musk got rid of the free drinks and eats areas? Maybe throwing out the deadwood saved enough to let the productive continue to benefit from the free cappuccino, latte and whatever machines. Pretty sure the free wine took a hike.
With me in charge, you could run Twitters core business with 20 old white guys.
I reckon Musk sold all the wine dispensers in the employee break room. Oh, the horror! Snowflakes melting for miles!
A couple of dozen geezers could handle it. I know a bunch of them.
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.
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.
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.
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.