There are talented engineers but
1. Twitter needs a strategy.
2. It needs and architecture consensus
3. It needs time for transferring the knowledge
4. It needs advertisers to be willing to wait while this happens
He should have done these firings slowly and systematically while hiring replacements
“ He should have done these firings slowly and systematically while hiring replacements”
The problem with that theory is that the ranks of employees are filled with people who would sabotage the entire thing. It’s better to run with a skeleton crew maintaining the status quo than allowing saboteurs to remain.
Doing ‘slow firings’ would have created massive sabotage, IMO.