Musk and Twitter haven’t confirmed the firings, but employees have been monitoring the situation through public tweets and private messages.
on the same post about load times from Musk, writing, “As the former tech lead for timelines infrastructure at Twitter, I can confidently say that this man has no idea wtf he’s talking about.”Sasha Solomon, a software engineer, posted Monday night that she was fired for a critical post.Another engineer, Nick Morgan, tweeted a screenshot of the email sent from Twitter HR that said he was fired after his”recent behaviour violated company policy.
“My Twitter account was protected at the time, so I can only assume this was for not showing 100% loyalty in Slack,” he tweeted, referring to Twitter’s internal company communications.Twitter has been thrown into chaos since Musk took over late last month.half of the company’s 7,000-plus employees, including most of the senior managers, within about a week of his $44 billion buyout.
Musk’s changes have led to a lack of communication internally in terms of who is in charge and what the company’s priorities are, current and former staffers say. The moves have also led to concerns that San Francisco-based Twitter is vulnerable to product breakdowns or technical outages., halting product updates to the app, and employees say they weren’t given a clear reason why.
Part of Musk’s motivation for purchasing Twitter was to loosen content restrictions, and make it a destination for “So far, employees say, that sentiment doesn’t extend to his corporate policies.
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