Posted on 11/06/2022 5:54:49 PM PST by Coronal
Elon Musk wasted no time in reshaping Twitter's workforce, cutting about half of the company's 7,500 employees on Friday, but now the social media platform is reportedly trying to bring some of those workers back.
Dozens of workers are being asked to return, some of whom were laid off by mistake and others who have experience building features that the new Twitter owner wants.
Musk tweeted on Friday that Twitter's layoffs were necessary because the company was losing more than $4 million per day.
The Tesla CEO hinted at big changes in the lead-up to closing the deal, tweeting in May that the company "will be super focused on hardcore software engineering, design, infosec & server hardware." He tweeted in May that the "most messed up" thing at Twitter right now is that "there seem to be 10 people ‘managing’ for every one person coding."
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Is it possible that some managers purposely listed some people who were vital to the company, just to cause some trouble?
Makes sense. Nothing Elon Musk can do about that. Maybe he should just bring in some Tesla guys to bridge the gaps and then he can start hiring again, if necessary.
I’m still permanently suspended.
Still can’t access my account.
It’s all SSDD to me.
I thought he was planning on having Tesla guys to come in to rewrite Twitter code.
Good point, and maybe some that weren’t laid off told him some should be hired back as they were good employees.
Can’t believe all were bad employees.
That could be, but from what I read the Tesla vehicle code and the Tweater system code are totally different languages and systems. So at a minimum the Tesla folks would need a while to ramp up.
They are just locked out of Twit for the duration.
For some, their employment status may change.
This most likely to satisfy Kalifornee requirements for mass layoffs.
I have seen more than a few job anouncements for twitter recently and I can’t remember seeing any before. Just anecdotal, of course.
They were being brought in to do code reviews and evaluate people for RIF. I don’t think they were brought in to do coding.
i heard the criteria for firing is by the lines of codes the employees wrote. they somehow list everyone by the lines and then cut down the middle.
you’re bound to laid off someone by mistake... not all lines of codes are equal.
Especially when firing in lots of 1000 at a time, you’re going to make a mistake.
Sounds like a bad plan, rewarding inefficiency of programming.
I had to request a review. I was unbanned in 5 min
Actually, there's something to be said for that.
If people 'managing' are actually people like Scrum Masters, Business Owners and Business SME's, it makes sense to have those people. Actual managers, less important. But the three I listed?
Measure twice and cut once.
I can code in one line what it might take a junior or midlevel developer 10+ lines to accomplish.
I read an analysis from a guy who used to work at FarceBook and he claimed Tweater could run it with about 200 programmers.
I suppose a lot will depend on how much Musk is changing the system. And of course software outsourcing is widespread. You can have thousands of contractors and few direct employees.
In vehicle software we were always bumping up against available processing and memory resource capacity so compact code was a must. Not sure how these mega platforms work.
Regardless of language differences there is a ramp up on the code and logic. The language is a non issue.
I think any Tesla coder is capable of picking up a new language in 1-3 days max.
I can. My 19 son, who sold a company already, can too.
At some point, it becomes a process of learning syntax variations.
Sometimes compact code gets in the way of maintainability and readability, but I tend towards the compact.
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