During an all-hands meeting at Twitter on Monday, Musk said there were no more layoffs “planned” at the firm. The CEO has already reduced its headcount from.
What just happened? Days after telling Twitter staff there were no more planned layoffs, Elon Musk fired around 50 engineers without notice the day before Thanksgiving. The company’s owner has also announced that a “general amnesty” for banned accounts will come into effect next week.
During an all-hands meeting at Twitter on Monday, Musk said there were no more layoffs “planned” at the firm. The CEO has already reduced its headcount from 7,500 people to around 2,300; most of these came from his initial culling that saw half of all staff let go, though many left after being given the choice of becoming part of “hardcore” Twitter or leaving with three months’ severance pay.
But there were more firings on Wednesday, reportedly the result of the company’s new code review program in which engineers are required to submit samples of their work each week. The Verge’s Alex Heath tweeted that they were being let go because their “code is not satisfactory.
