Twitter Axes Another 200 Engineers And Managers

The New York Times reports:

Twitter laid off at least 200 of its employees on Saturday night, three people familiar with the matter said, or about 10 percent of the roughly 2,000 who were still working for the company. Elon Musk has steadily pared back its work force from about 7,500 employees as he has sought to reduce costs.

The cuts hit product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, which helps keep Twitter’s various features online. The monetization infrastructure team, which maintains the services through which Twitter makes money, was reduced to fewer than eight people from 30..

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Breaking News: Twitter is said to have laid off at least 200 more workers. The platform now employs less than 2,000, down from 7,500 when Elon Musk took over. https://t.co/Gng2iWtGMx

— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 27, 2023