Half of the team left without a position, trying to find employment when their contracts run out on January 3, and in the meantime feeling unwanted at headquarters have been the focus of headlines. If you are one of the people that Musk decided he fired in error, please come back, he's sorry he fired you. There isn't much information about where those cuts came from. We know that the communications team has been reduced from 100 to just two. One of the two remaining staff has left the company, and it is unclear if the other is still there. It has been difficult to discern which teams have been affected the most, but an analysis of a spreadsheet created by a staff engineer since May 2021, and filled out by fired employees, sheds some light. Around one in five of those fired in Musk's 3,750 person bloodbath are on the #oneteam Tweeps talent directory. There is a spreadsheet that shows where the ax fell the hardest. Of the 830 staff let go who signed up for the spreadsheet, 360 have the word "engineer" in their titles. A sample of the job titles were cross- checked to make sure they were legit. There are 26 machine learning engineers who may be snapped up by artificial intelligence companies looking to fill out desks. Most of the employees were based in the US. Engineers are the worst affected by layoffs in sheer numbers, according to the spreadsheet, with the obvious caveat that those filling out their details to be included are self-selecting, and likely reflect the communities in which the spreadsheet is shared on LinkedIn. According to the document, engineers are more likely to follow fellow engineers than those who have lost their jobs and filled out their details. After engineers, product managers appeared to be the next worst affected job title, with 24 members of the curation team adding their names to the list. The employee who avoided being cut and is still working at the company within the engineering team says that the proportion of engineering staff included in the layoff spreadsheet sounds about right. The halving of the workforce has a human impact as well. According to the spreadsheet, less than 200 staff members had visa support from the social networking site. One senior software engineer with 40 years of experience was among those laid off. The software engineer's profile on the professional networking site suggests he was at the micro-messaging service for less than a year before he was terminated. He did not respond right away.
The stability of the website and app is at risk because of that. Ian Brown is an information security and privacy researcher and visiting professor at FGV University in Buenos Aires, Brazil. It takes a lot of global resources to maintain a high availability global service.
The department has been disrupted by the layoffs. The previous software model was very small. Engineers pushed a service and watched how it performed. They would make improvements and push it again. They would watch again and look for more improvement. It is a free-for-all where major new features are being deployed into the code base without being checked.
It is an assessment that Foone Turing concurs with. Rebooting machines, cleaning out temp files and logs, and fallover are some of the things that can be automated.
Turing says that engineering staffing reductions affect things like people not knowing that system A was dependent on system B to boot, and system B was dependent on system A to boot until they both went down at the same time. That is an example that happened to them when they were at their previous job.
The scale, brutality and way in which the layoffs were enacted make the position of the company difficult. The way in which they were enacted could be compared to the way in which they were communicated to their staff. The CEO of the company seems to have told the HR department about the layoffs. The email that staff were told about the layoffs was signed by Collison. Meta's 11,000-strong layoffs are similar to Musk's method of laying off staff, with the CEO promising large amounts of severance to those employees who lose their jobs.
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