Ask HN: Is Elon Musk right about firing 85% of Twitter engineers? A lot has happened since Elon Musk took over and fired around 85% of Twitter's engineering workforces. There has been many controversial news surrounding the whole ordeal. My question though is STRICTLY about the running and engineering practices of Twitter/X. We have seen Twitter's revenue plummet, and a lot of negative press. But what we haven't seen is twitter the actual website/platform implode like many engineers predicted. So I want to ask for the opinions of y'all. Are most companies hiring too many engineers? How were they able to maintain this massive platform despite cutting off so many engineers. Have we over-estimated the importance of engineers? |