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Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by samstave »

xiphias2 wrote: post #4

,,The ML Ethics, Transparency, & Accountability team was one of a kind'' Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

When I interviewed with Twitter in ~2007 or something they asked me "What do you think Twitter is"

My reply was,

"you're a global sentiment barometer"

Re: Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

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Post by bluescrn »

aliljet wrote: post #8

I'm pretty curious about how and where Twitter employees were distributed. For a company ostensibly worth $44 billion, having 7,500 staff feels pretty damn lean. It feels like Musk isn't just purging people, he's purging the Twitter culture...

For comparison, SpaceX runs an entire private space program on ~12,000 employees. Near-weekly launches. Rocket development+production. Building+deploying Starlink.

(Although that's just a number from a quick googling. Maybe they outsource a lot of manufacturing etc?)

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Post by rob74 »

> “To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended,” the email reads. “If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.”

Welcome to the dystopian future... I find it a bit galling how companies can force you into home office nowadays if it suits them (you want to avoid your underlings congregating in the office in such a situation), but also force you to come to the office when it suits them.

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Post by anonymoushn »

lm28469 wrote: post #5
xiphias2 wrote: post #4

,,The ML Ethics, Transparency, & Accountability team was one of a kind'' Sure, something nobody has heared of and nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter.

> nobody knows why it should be at a company like Twitter. If you don't know you're the problem tbh

Do they often publish transparency reports about their ML systems that cannot identify months-long spam campaigns where scammers post identical messages tens of thousands of times?

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Post by chrisseaton »

rob74 wrote: post #13

> “To help ensure the safety of each employee as well as Twitter systems and customer data, our offices will be temporarily closed and all badge access will be suspended,” the email reads. “If you are in an office or on your way to an office, please return home.” Welcome to the dystopian future... I find it a bit galling how companies can force you into home office nowadays if it suits them (you want to avoid your un…

They're not 'forcing' you to do anything, they're offering to pay you to do it.

Unless you think every time I buy some bread from my baker I'm stealing it from him?

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

What a contrast in leadership when you compare the way Twitter is doing this (rumor is right before bonus/stock vesting and cold impersonal email) and how Stripe is conducting their layoffs (empathy, 14 weeks severance, bonus payouts, etc.)

Which company is going to have an easier time hiring after the dust settles and they have a growth stage again?

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Post by netsharc »

osullish wrote: post #2

If true, I find the 'print out the code you wrote in the last 30-60 days' very grim and a very blunt tool for evaluating productivity.

Why would anyone subject themselves to such humiliation? (Well, a fat paycheck is probably an answer). It feels more like a weeding-out process, if I were a giant jerkoff billionaire, I would know anyone who submits to this bullshit will submit to further humiliation...
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