Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by Macha on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:25AM (#33465430)

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

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by talaketu on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:43AM (#33465618)

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, ...

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by Macha on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:57AM (#33465820)

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

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by ghaff on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:00AM (#33465856)

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.

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by cjrp on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:59AM (#33465848)

So there's overlap between every developer

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by sam_lowry_ on Friday November 04, 2022 @03:52PM (#33472813)

630 coders is quite a lot for what Twitter does.

They do not own datacenters, AFAIK.

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