I think people shouldn't jump to conclusions that the firings were completely uninformed. People seem to be under the assumption that 100% of the executives and

I think people shouldn't jump to conclusions that the firings were completely uninformed. People seem to be under the assumption that 100% of the executives and management would be against Elon. There's going to be quite a few who will talk to Elon and give opinions on what changes need to be made, probably people who were out of favor with existing management and executives. These may be people he has been talking to for quite some time, even before the deal went through. Also the tweet doesn't say if it was just the data engineering team, more than that, or a subset of people and the people fired think it's the entire team. Having gone through a layoff before, you're generally not told what subset of people were let go, just that you have been. Edit: The linked tweet in question has also been deleted...