> many tech companies really are overstaffed > and can get away with far fewer employees I can't tell whether Twitter was really overstaffed or not, but I don

> many tech companies really are overstaffed > and can get away with far fewer employees I can't tell whether Twitter was really overstaffed or not, but I don't agree with people who use "see, twitter.com is still stable now" as a proof that the company was overstaffed before layoff. For instance, the stability could have been earlier investment in reliability engineering paying off. Cutting features and reducing changes also improves stability, but that may not be a good thing in the long run. Can the company get away with it? Possible.