Ask HN: Is Elon Musk right about firing 85% of Twitter engineers?

Re:Ask HN: Is Elon Musk right about firing 85% of Twitter en... by nullindividual on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:03AM (#38655439)

> But what we haven't seen is twitter the actual website/platform implode like many engineers predicted.

Twitter had plenty of issues post-firing. There were outages, features not working correctly, etc.

Let's not forget that the firing was a giant f-up, poorly planned, and done at the behest of a mentally ill billionaire.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Elon Musk right about firing 85% of Twitter en... by pauljonas on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:04PM (#38656069)

There are still many features not working.

I used to search within lists (was like the best feature of Twitter, for my usage) quite a bit -- after Musk gutted the team after taking over, it no longer works, and has been that way for many months.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Elon Musk right about firing 85% of Twitter en... by JumpCrisscross on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:10AM (#38655519)

> were outages, features not working correctly, etc.

But then it stabilised. While launching new features. Twitter's value destruction has been entirely a function of Musk's personal antics. Not their engineering quality.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Elon Musk right about firing 85% of Twitter en... by sheperd209 on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:41AM (#38655837)

yup, you've taken words right out of my mouth. I am just curious what was the output of the 85% of engineers that were fired. Mind you, among them were ver senior/director level, so it wasn't just college graduates and middle managers

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Re:Ask HN: Is Elon Musk right about firing 85% of Twitter en... by panick21_ on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:24PM (#38656284)

It also had issues before the take over.

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