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I don't understand how Twilio could need 8500 employees? Atlassian reports 8100 and I'd say they have a much larger and diverse body of work than Twilio. Am I
by noddingham 4y ago
I don't understand how Twilio could need 8500 employees? Atlassian reports 8100 and I'd say they have a much larger and diverse body of work than Twilio. Am I being crass in thinking that this could have been avoided had they not grown headcount "like a rocket ship: straight up and to the right"?
- twawaaay 4y agoThey did not need them. They already admitted in September they overhired just for the sake of growth and they lost focus through the process. https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/twilio-lays-off-11-of-its-staff-as-it-aims-for-profitability-in-2023 https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/twilio-lays-off-11-of-its-... It is the same old story, really. First hires are careful and frugal decisions. But at some point when there is money laying around that needed to be spent people will hire almost anybody just for the sake of being able to report progress on the hiring they were supposed to do or to grow their kingdom or to jumpstart a new potential product that wasn't really thought through very well or a lot other reasons.