Senior Twitter engineer Siru Murugesan claimed that he only worked four hours per week and acted as though this were not at all uncommon. He also bluntly state

Senior Twitter engineer Siru Murugesan claimed that he only worked four hours per week and acted as though this were not at all uncommon. He also bluntly stated that Twitter was not concerned with being a profitable business venture, as they were not capitalists but socialists (his words). This was backed up by "Lead Client Partner" Alex Martinez, who stated that Twitter's focus on being ideologically driven led to them becoming unprofitable. Unless Twitter's culture of unprofitability and dead weight employment programs is unique in SV, perhaps other companies in midst of layoffs have similar reasons as did the new Twitter owner.