After the first round of cuts, remaining employees got an email asking them to commit to being "hardcore" — long hours, intense work, no excuses. You clicked yes, or you left. A l…
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Social media platform acquired by Elon Musk in late 2022. Immediately cut approximately 80% of its workforce and has continued with further rounds of redundancies since.
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Paraphrased from The Verge / Washington Post (Nov 2022) — "hardcode" pledge documented
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17 Nov 2022
I was a contractor at Twitter through a staffing agency. I found out my engagement had ended when my team lead messaged me on WhatsApp — personal phone — to ask if I was okay, bec…
Paraphrased from CNBC (Nov 2022) — contractor cuts without notification documented
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5 Nov 2022
A notification on my personal phone at 2:17am. A tweet from a journalist saying the first wave of Twitter layoffs had begun. I looked at my work laptop. Locked. Corporate email go…
Paraphrased from TechCrunch / PBS News / CNN (Nov 4, 2022) — access revocation timing documented
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4 Nov 2022