According to internal records reviewed by CNBC, Twitter’s full-time workforce has dwindled to about 1,300 active employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers per job title. I’m here. About 75 of his 1,300 employees at the company are on leave, including about 40 engineers.
The company’s trust and safety team, which recommends policies, designs, and makes product changes with the goal of keeping everyone on Twitter safe, is down to fewer than 20 full-time employees.
About 1,400 non-workers are still paid to Twitter, according to internal records, but are no longer expected to fulfill their former responsibilities at the social media company. Many of them resigned when CEO Elon Musk sent a “pledge” on Twitter 2.0 asking them to dedicate themselves to “hardcore” work involving long hours.
Under Musk’s control, Twitter has cut staff through mass layoffs, other layoffs, and changes that have prompted many to resign, including the end of the permanent work-from-home policy put in place under former CEO Jack Dorsey. I was forced.
Before Musk led Twitter’s $44 billion leveraged buyout, Twitter had about 7,500 employees. Layoffs were rumored internally and expected to occur whether or not the Musk acquisition was successful. But according to internal records and two of his most recent employees he spoke to CNBC, Musk has cut the workforce much more than many expected, or about 80%.
The loss of employees and headcount reductions will make it difficult to reliably maintain services while building new features, according to an engineer who retired from the company.
The person, who requested anonymity when speaking about his former employer, said the company’s codebase is huge and that maintaining different parts of Twitter requires knowledge of different platforms and programming languages. I explained. For example, advertising services and core timelines. According to them, the engineer’s set of skills is not always applicable to all of these. And after losing so much institutional knowledge, it will be difficult to train engineers, he added.
In addition to about 1,300 full-time employees, Musk has approved about 130 people from other businesses. TeslaSpaceX, The Boring Company, and venture funds and other corporate talent to work on Twitter.
Since acquiring Twitter, Musk has faced distractions, political controversy over his strategy on Twitter, and billions of dollars worth of Tesla stock to finance the Twitter acquisition. The sale has faced shareholder backlash against Tesla.
Clarification: This article has been updated to note that 1,300 are active, working Twitter employees. Another 1,400 of them are unemployed but paid employees of Twitter.