~220K staff, ~$330B revenue, ~$200B EBITDA. How they direct those resources (wisely or otherwise, timely or otherwise) is a management decision. I feel I should also point out that when talking about people, "resource" is not the same as "talent".

Are those numbers accurate now that 60k were offered buyouts?

Anyone want to guess if any of those afflicted _could have_ caught an issue that may have prevented this disaster?

They haven't left the company yet

Do you think those offered buyouts may have less incentive to focus as much?

1) they haven’t left yet

2) they’re only expecting 10% or so to take the buyouts, so more like 6,000

Now what if those were mythical 10x engineers?

imho, especially in large tech orgs, every engineer is a 10x engineer for the right circumstances. But they're 1x engineers the rest of the time. But the whole reason to keep them around is you get the 10x performance when it's needed. Perhaps when a massive outage occurs

Any experienced dev at any org who knows how to deal with that particular pile of mess because it has been their job for at least half a decade is 10x developer.

[delayed]

sometimes you're bulked up because it takes muscles to lift the extra 300lbs of load. now go on a sudden crash diet and see if you can lift the same weight without dropping it