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re: Elon Musk Plans To Cut 75% Of Twitter Workforce, Report Says
Posted on 10/20/22 at 6:57 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Posted on 10/20/22 at 6:57 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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Let the meltdowns commence
We might actually see posts from real, live human beings.
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Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:00 pm to IT_Dawg
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Please don’t compare programming and security from the 60s and 80s to today….that was a dumb argument to try and agree with what I already said
It was in reference to twitter firing a bunch of programming and security people in 2015
Doesnt appear they mattered despite the fact you think they did
Company only grew
Fire 99% of them. Pay the rest handsomely but less than the bloat total plus smaller space and departments needed.
Couple dozen people seem to have been the only ones cranking out any real work over there.
Let the rest sleep on the streets in San Fran they love so much.
This post was edited on 10/20/22 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:08 pm to IT_Dawg
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2000 is probably low. You don't understand what it takes to maintain and engineer a platform like that with as many users and the security implications.
I do and it could be maintained with under 100 people. That is being extremely generous as well. This will include the security team
If you want to add enhancements, then I give you another 100 for devs and QA.
That is generally what you might need from an IT side and I did some extreme padding.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:28 pm to RLDSC FAN
That’s the best thing I’ve read all year. Just enough staff to keep the servers running. No need for all the VPs of bullshite and the hall monitors.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:47 pm to Pax Regis
Are they keeping Oweo??
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:11 pm to Fat and Happy
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I doubt it impacts users.
It’s gonna be cutting wasted positions
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.
This post was edited on 10/20/22 at 8:15 pm
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.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:37 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Report Says
So nobody
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:37 pm to DarthRebel
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I do and it could be maintained with under 100 people. That is being extremely generous as well. This will include the security team
It’s a very basic product that’s in the mature phase of the business cycle. No customer service. No marketing or sales really. 100 is plenty.
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.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 9:08 pm to DukeSilver
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that threatens to impact user experience.
How so?
It will impact the Washington posts and leftists experience because their little curated bubble will be burst. No more working with Biden admin to suppress legit information, no more restriction of free speech is very impactful for these marxists scum.
Every other normal persons experience will be vastly improved as their posts won't get removed when speaking the truth.
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.
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.
This post was edited on 10/21/22 at 1:36 am
Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:13 pm to DarthRebel
quote:Some of you guys clearly have never been in the vicinity of systems that have to support thousands of users 24/7, much less the tens of millions of users across the planet that Twitter has to support.
I do and it could be maintained with under 100 people. That is being extremely generous as well. This will include the security team
If you want to add enhancements, then I give you another 100 for devs and QA.
That is generally what you might need from an IT side and I did some extreme padding.
He could possibly run it with 2,000 employees, but that would be the bare minimum and only because he may outsource some functions. No telling if he wants to actually save money / streamline or simply look to sink his own investment.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:17 pm to RLDSC FAN
That’s a lot of bot creators out of a job
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.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:20 pm to RLDSC FAN
He can start in the censorship department.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:45 pm to mmcgrath
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users 24/7, much less the tens of millions of users across the planet that Twitter has to support.
You mean bots, right?
Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:48 pm to tigerman03
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that threatens to impact user experience
Oh no what are we doing to do with fewer employees to enact censorship and write pro-leftist algorithms :(
Posted on 10/20/22 at 11:49 pm to WestCoastAg
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How long till you are wishing the female twitter employees are forced into sexual slavery like that female indeed employee you wished it on
Maybe your incel arse might have a chance to get laid
Posted on 10/21/22 at 7:42 am to Jones
quote:bots use the system too. So unless you keep up or increase manpower to reduce bots they have to be counted as well.
You mean bots, right?
I know you were trying for a herp derp moment...
This post was edited on 10/21/22 at 7:43 am
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