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Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-emplo

Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-say-layoffs-have-started-as-elon-musk-takes-over.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... Edit: this may have been a prank.

dang 4y ago
That is discussed in this thread, but it's not clear what's going on with that story (comments are saying it was a prank, and the originally submitted tweet has been deleted): Departing Twitter employees say layoffs have started as Elon Musk takes over - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374597 - Oct 2022 (108 comments)
xfour 4y ago
Not specific to Twitter but as I understand it. Generally a data engineering team will setup the pipelines and ETL processes to turn transactional data into aggregate data necessary to run analytics.
- mikkergp 4y ago
  Yeah which seems like a bland day-one target.
wwweston 4y ago
That sounds like the move of someone who wants specifically-selected very loyal people designing systems which would tell you what's actually happening on the platform.
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bpodgursky 4y ago
This might have been a prank.
slg 4y ago
Who knows if that rumor is true, but it would be another red flag with Elon's approach. I can understand clearing out the old leadership team on day 1, but how quickly could Musk possibly know that there is no one on this team that could provide value to Twitter with different management or in some other role? Shooting first and asking questions later is not a good approach to managing a billion-dollar company.
- ajmurmann 4y ago
  Typically a lot of investigations into products and teams already take place before close. This was a weird acquisition though, so who knows if that actually was possible beforehand.
  - slg 4y ago
    Yes, but there is a difference between "I don't think what this team is currently working on provides value to the company" and "I don't think this team or anyone on it can provide value to the company". That second viewpoint is much more definitive and should require more time and evidence to reach.
- szastamasta 4y ago
  Funny how we give advice on how to manage a billion dollar company to guy who owns 2 of these . I’m not sure how many do you own, but I unfortunately don’t have any.
  - slg 4y ago
    The idea that only people who have done a job can criticize a person doing that job is silly. We all can criticize the President for example without having led a country. Isn't that principle supposedly the underlying reason Musk bought Twitter?
  - mikkergp 4y ago
    Since it looks like it was a prank and he didn't actually do this, it seems like good advice.
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vishnugupta 4y ago
High chance it's a prank. https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672 https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672
tibudiyanto 4y ago
I think this might be a prank. One of the guy is saying his name is Rahul Ligma lmao
jdoliner 4y ago
This story looks like it was a hoax, it has an editors note now.
DesiLurker 4y ago
Maybe it was a prank but there is strong reason to believe that he'd want to use his Dojo AI engine to do heavy data engineering for twitter. that may mean some overlap & slightly different technical profile than existing team. Oh and um .. Loyalists!

dang 4y ago

That is discussed in this thread, but it's not clear what's going on with that story (comments are saying it was a prank, and the originally submitted tweet has been deleted): Departing Twitter employees say layoffs have started as Elon Musk takes over - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374597 - Oct 2022 (108 comments)

xfour 4y ago

Not specific to Twitter but as I understand it. Generally a data engineering team will setup the pipelines and ETL processes to turn transactional data into aggregate data necessary to run analytics.

mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah which seems like a bland day-one target.

wwweston 4y ago

That sounds like the move of someone who wants specifically-selected very loyal people designing systems which would tell you what's actually happening on the platform.

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bpodgursky 4y ago

This might have been a prank.

slg 4y ago

Who knows if that rumor is true, but it would be another red flag with Elon's approach. I can understand clearing out the old leadership team on day 1, but how quickly could Musk possibly know that there is no one on this team that could provide value to Twitter with different management or in some other role? Shooting first and asking questions later is not a good approach to managing a billion-dollar company.

ajmurmann 4y ago
Typically a lot of investigations into products and teams already take place before close. This was a weird acquisition though, so who knows if that actually was possible beforehand.
- slg 4y ago
  Yes, but there is a difference between "I don't think what this team is currently working on provides value to the company" and "I don't think this team or anyone on it can provide value to the company". That second viewpoint is much more definitive and should require more time and evidence to reach.
szastamasta 4y ago
Funny how we give advice on how to manage a billion dollar company to guy who owns 2 of these . I’m not sure how many do you own, but I unfortunately don’t have any.
- slg 4y ago
  The idea that only people who have done a job can criticize a person doing that job is silly. We all can criticize the President for example without having led a country. Isn't that principle supposedly the underlying reason Musk bought Twitter?
- mikkergp 4y ago
  Since it looks like it was a prank and he didn't actually do this, it seems like good advice.

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vishnugupta 4y ago

High chance it's a prank. https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672 https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672

tibudiyanto 4y ago

I think this might be a prank. One of the guy is saying his name is Rahul Ligma lmao

jdoliner 4y ago

This story looks like it was a hoax, it has an editors note now.

DesiLurker 4y ago

Maybe it was a prank but there is strong reason to believe that he'd want to use his Dojo AI engine to do heavy data engineering for twitter. that may mean some overlap & slightly different technical profile than existing team. Oh and um .. Loyalists!