Half of the workforce was laid off on Friday, but the company is still hiring. There were at least 92 open roles on the careers page. The headquarters of the company was in San Francisco. All but one of the seven roles were advertised onLinkedIn in London. There are six jobs for software engineers, despite one being fired while he slept.
On Thursday, Musk sent a memo to staff that said they would find out if they were being laid off on Friday. The employees were cut off from their work email and laptops.
After his $44 billion deal to buy the platform was completed, the founder of the electric car company took over. The CEO and the CFO were immediately fired.
New ideas for the company included charging users $8 to gain a "verified" status and seeing less ads.
A growing number of companies have stopped advertising on the platform due to concerns over the way it handles content moderation.
According to The Financial Times, Musk told some of the leading advertisers on the platform that there would be different levels of moderation on the platform.
The CEO of the company said Friday that the commitment to moderation of content remained the same. He said that he had to make mass layoffs because the company was losing money.
He said that everyone was offered three months of severance, which is 50% more than the law requires. Some staff at the micro-blogging site have disagreed with the claim.
Insider didn't get a response from the social network.
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