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You mean the 80% of the workforce that was fired and the company continued running just fine? Usually just firing 3 to 5% of any company workers have terrible
by cladopa 7mo ago
You mean the 80% of the workforce that was fired and the company continued running just fine?
Usually just firing 3 to 5% of any company workers have terrible consequences for the company that does it.
It does not speak so well about the workers.
- mattbillenstein 7mo agoHe also cut 80% of the traffic... And the fact that it kept running with him willy nilly pulling network cables is a credit to the work they did to make it resilient to failure.
- iknowstuff 7mo agoSource on pre/post traffic numbers?
- mattbillenstein 7mo agoI don't have it at hand, but if you look at all the products and apis they cut - and then all the users who abandoned it in the first few months, I think that's how this was derived.
- watwut 7mo agoIt was significantly worst, could not keep ads, became overrun by bots. The quality went down significantly. And earnings too.
- keeda 7mo agoI don't understand this take. Do people think engineers go in to work to turn handcranks to keep the machines running? It's actually a credit to the automation built by the engineers he fired that it kept running! At the time I joked that like Chaos Monkey, we should have an "Elon Monkey" to "fire" arbitrary people by sending them on mandatory vacations with no connectivity to see what falls over.
- spullara 7mo agothe people that built the infrastructure that runs twitter left before he showed up. most of it was written by a half dozen people that left around 2016.