As an application, Twitter needs developers, engineers some Project Management, Legal and Management.
Can anyone break down what 7,500 employees were doing ?
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This person asked a simple question. Lots of answers that don't address the question but none answer it. Guess if it is twitter employees responding that is understandable as they probably didn't know anyway.
when twitter employees get unlimited time off you gotta staff up 300%, so yea, they were a blotted machine
Elon, why you asking this question on thelayoff.com?
Guys finding arguments for the large number of staff here - if you were right that would mean twitter would be unable to function with half the size of staff. Something tells me we won’t see a sudden implosion though.
You clearly haven't worked for a large tech company.
They are very active in data science, building out models for protection. The machine learning teams were great at productionalizing these models, and integrating into the overall system. This is just a small piece. Twitter is not just some HTML and CSS. The number of microservices behind the scenes, integrated with their clients (iOS, Android, etc.) going through a BFF, at Twitter scale is impressive.
OP has a very limited scope of a business.
This is Twitter. A rep for large accounts? To do what
VOIP is a commodity. You get Microsoft Office and use Teams
The architecture of Twitter is set.
And there is this thing called cloud that reduces your engineering footprint
Again sounds like a LOT of waste
Go to Linked in and browse profiles… I can easily come up with a hundred categories that a corporation (with revenues similar to their) would need…
You need an army of people just to run a large ad platform that they custom built.
Nobody talks about it but thats the heart…
Account reps for thousands large accounts, internal support, field ops, finance, procurement, training, change management, tax, legal, networks, voip, enterprise arch, virtualization, cloud ops - break this down into manu subsegments, devops, os, security, data warehouses, dbas or whoever manages dbs, identity management, special project, marketing, crm, erp and all the hundred people mess it goes with it, r and d, data and analytics…
this is all without covering the twitter product (site and app) - that can be a few dozen or a few thousand engineers, depending on how quickly you want to move and deploy…
Musk ain't gonna buy you a pony, dude.