Re:Twitter Plans Company Wide Layoffs Next Week
by TheBlueDot on Friday October 09, 2015 @07:16PM
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With almost 50 (17 in the last two years) acquisitions most of the growth is from that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
As far as engineering, take a look: https://about.twitter.com/careers/teams/software-engineering
Many companies are much more complex than you might imagine from the outside. Also, a lot of it is meta-headcount: managers, facilities, food service, payroll, benefits, recruiters, lawyers, HR people, etc. all scale at least partially with headcount.
You'll notice many of the jobs are with companies Twitter has acquired or various platform-level projects, like Fabric, Vine, TellApart, Finagle, etc.