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I don't know who you work for, but something tells me your boss didn't publicly fire a huge chunk of the engineering staff being like, "WTF are all these people
by frob 3y ago
I don't know who you work for, but something tells me your boss didn't publicly fire a huge chunk of the engineering staff being like, "WTF are all these people good for? lol"
- 93po 3y agoDaily active users are at all time highs and Twitter before Elon was heading into bankruptcy. Tell us what your plan would have been
- bdcravens 3y agoRemember Elon was strong-armed into the purchase; he tried to back out. That aside, in his shoes I would have slashed non-essential roles, but been a bit less heavy-handed among the engineers. I do feel that Twitter's popularity is orthogonal to the cost-cutting.
- penjelly 3y agothere are still TONS of bots, despite what musk says
- slily 3y agoThat's the point. We have reliability engineers and QA, but I don't find that they actually prevent or resolve outages. I guess it's funny to poke fun at every outage after the mass layoffs, but in reality I doubt things would have been much better had that not happened.