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Re:Twitter Plans Company Wide Layoffs Next Week by superuser2 on Friday October 09, 2015 @06:34PM (#10363642)
According to the Twitter Careers page: Software Engineering, Design & UX Research, Sales & Revenue, Product Management, Infrastructure Operations, Media & BizDev, Trust & Safety, User Services, Legal, Finance, Workplace & Admin, Marketing & Communications, HR & Recruiting.

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.

Re:Twitter Plans Company Wide Layoffs Next Week by TheBlueDot on Friday October 09, 2015 @07:16PM (#10363787)
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...