That is a huge proposed cut. There is no way that wouldn't significantly impact the user experience. I'd say it's a high likelihood that it'd be a terrible customer experience going forward as well.

You could slash all the DEI and touchy feel good shite altogether and that wouldn't get you a fraction of the way to a 75% org cut. This is product management, procurement, sales and marketing, engineering, etc. 7,500 employees is tiny for a company that generates $5B in revenue - they're already reasonably lean; for comparison, another software company down the road with $5B in revenue (Workday) and that is generally considered to have its shite together and well ran has ~15K employees.

This is almost certainly just strategic messaging from Elon - get your arse in gear because new ownership is in town and we're looking over your shoulder.

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Posted by Caraway Rye

Member since Oct 2021

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Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:15 pm to AbuTheMonkey

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for comparison, another software company down the road with $5B in revenue (Workday) has ~15K employees.

Yes

They have a lot of completely worthless hangers on because that is somehow what we decided was okay.

Most of them could completely dissappear and no one would notice.

Could run a test and just pull one of them at a time and see if the company falls apart. No? Interesting.

Millions of workers could be fired tomorrow without production loss. But we have to care about these worthless people.

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Posted by gatorsimz

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Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:44 pm to AbuTheMonkey

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That is a huge proposed cut. There is no way that wouldn't significantly impact the user experience.

The UX is already established, how would it be affected? The product is already mature and scaled. They can just not touch the code If they are saying the UX is currently good and it would be diminished with job cuts. Comparing twitter to workday is apples to oranges.

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Posted by topdollarbill

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Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:00 pm to AbuTheMonkey

The richest man in the history of the planet that created a company that lands rockets standing straight up thinks he can effectively and profitably run with 2000 people to start.

He doesn't do business like they taught the MBA's at Stanford that designed the current way of doing business in Silicon Valley, or anywhere else for that matter. This dude gets shite done.

That Gigafactory in Austin is one of the modern marvels of the world in how that got built in the timeline he placed on it.

SpaceX? Starlink?

If he says he can do it with 2000, I wouldn't bet against him.

He's prolly just cutting to the bone while they figure out what Twitter 2.0 looks like. Don't need all the fricktards that believe in Twitter 1.0 working against you hanging around.

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Posted by lostinbr

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Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:17 pm to AbuTheMonkey

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for comparison, another software company down the road with $5B in revenue (Workday) and that is generally considered to have its shite together and well ran has ~15K employees

I’m not saying you’re wrong about the general feasibility of those cuts, but I feel like Workday is a pretty bad comparison for Twitter. The revenue might be similar, but the product is completely different. Workday is customizing their platforms for every single customer.

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