It still is cherry picking one out of many examples where the headcount reductions were by far not that drastic as in Twitter. The parent reply has an importan

It still is cherry picking one out of many examples where the headcount reductions were by far not that drastic as in Twitter. The parent reply has an important point: a good % of headcount reductions tend to affect r&d and the type of projects where cutting investment doesn’t have a negative short or even medium term effect on the company. Sometimes it can even be positive for operations (e.g. infra teams have to support less product teams). This is mostly why it’s very uncommon to see headcount reductions lead to instability, etc. Long term effects (e.g. stagnation, no innovation..) may manifest, but are harder to see clearly in advance, and when they do happen the connection to those layoffs from N years ago is not obvious/even remembered