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I admit that I never understood what was going on with Google's voice assistant. As a user for the past 4-5 years or so (mainly using smart home devices), it ha

I admit that I never understood what was going on with Google's voice assistant. As a user for the past 4-5 years or so (mainly using smart home devices), it hasn't shown improvement in quality; at times, it even seems to regress. What were all those people doing day to day??? This is a serious question. I remember thinking the same thing about Twitter: Why do they have all those employees? And, with an 80% reduction in workforce, they are still operating. Yes, the new management is ruining the business side of things, but the service is still functional in the same way as it was 3 years ago.

MrDresden 3y ago
> Yes, the new management is ruining the business side of things, but the service is still functional in the same way as it was 3 years ago. Have you ever thought that perhaps the quality of the work done by the people that Musk let go might have anything to do with that? If the foundation is solid, then there is nothing saying that a skeleton crew couldn't keep the lights on for a while. Until such a time when some major incident happens. Then the remaining workforce might hit a wall with what they can accomplish (not due to lack skill necessarily but lack of support).
- yonisto 3y ago
  It could be. But it doesn't add up. According to wikipedia [0] 2017 - 3,372 Employees ( by this time building the foundation for 7+ years) 2021 - 7,500+ Employees And the functionality remained the same. I never found a good explanation what doubling the number of employees actually did. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter,_Inc.