Because we should believe everything Elon says.
The guys has proven that his word doesn't mean a thing.
So it sounds like exactly zero people who have committed code recently will be fired, right?
Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
by jesuscript on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:18AM
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Depends on how Caligula feels next week.
Right but the people who bring in the money (advertising sales) probably got axed because they don’t write code.
Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
by sam_lowry_ on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:54PM
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Rightfully so, because 8€/month for blue stamp needs neither.
As I saw pointed out elsewhere, with a headcount of only engineers and these alleged 10 managers per engineers, this would leave twitter with like 630 engineers and 6300 managers which is a clearly a drastic underestimation of the number of engineers and that's before you count roles like sales, support, etc.
Don't take everything Elon tweets at face value
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586686935518498816
> There seem to be 10 people "managing" for every one person coding
Take this literally, not as as a ration. - each SWE in a product team has an EM, Dir Eng, VP Eng, PM, Director Product, VP Product, ...
Sure, but that team may have N engineers and those VPs may have N teams, so that doesn't seem so ludicrous for a 7000 person company. Or even 3500 person company by EOD. Certainly in my company there's about a 200:1 engineer:VP engineering ratio, so pointing out every engineer reports to a VP is kind of a meaningless statement
And there are also finance people, HR people, sales, etc. people. The company is far from entirely engineers, their managers, and the managers of their managers.
So there's overlap between every developer
Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun
by sam_lowry_ on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:52PM
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630 coders is quite a lot for what Twitter does.
They do not own datacenters, AFAIK.
Based on my experience in a 2nd tier SV company I believe this to be true