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How does a company like this need 7,500 people?
by sn0w_crash 4y ago
How does a company like this need 7,500 people?
- phillipcarter 4y agoBecause it's a set of massive engineering systems, applications, advertising market, social institution, etc.? Big, complex sociotechnical systems require a lot of human beings to keep moving along.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoThis is not a company with multiple products. The ad platform is just barely usable, with an only slightly better UI than LinkedIn. Its core product has not changed meaningfully in 10 years. The company down much of its developer-facing offering years ago. There are e-commerce websites with a more complex stack than Twitter. This is a product that can run on 1,000 people and nothing about the user experience will be different. There is probably so much administrative, HR, and operational bloat that the company probably rivals most universities.
- phillipcarter 4y agoI think you're doing a bunch of speculation. I disagree with most of what you wrote.
- shaburn 4y agoThe balance sheet has been a public market charity for tech employees who want paid hiatus since they IPO'd.
- toofy 4y agoall of this is based on what? this seems like an awful lot of speculation regarding one of the largest social networks on the planet. is there waste? highly likely. but the kind you’re implying? sounds ridiculous. what are you basing this on?
- batmanturkey 4y agoWell, heck, you can shrivel it down to ONE employee and then fire them, if you just wanna tank Twitter. It seems like the sorta crackhead move we have come to expect from mister attention whore extraordinaire. He’s in a competition of some kind with Kanye, apparently. Why is he wasting 40 billion on a trumpet of little worth if it’s worth so little? What a weird mid life crisis sports car to buy, it’s not even red.