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Almost no information here or anywhere else. Any other source? What roles? How many?

Edit: 30% of its recruiting team: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-lays-off-third-of-talen...

WSJ has a piece on it. A third of the talent team, which affects fewer than 100. https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-lays-off-third-of-talen...

Explains why this is being posted on Linkedin like it's a blog.

makes sense. They've been in a hiring freeze for a while now. Not much sense paying recruiters to sit on their hands I guess.

Also, they need to remove the ideologists there first, if they want to be able to replace the ideologists in other positions.

Ideologist compared to what? A normal person or a Twitter employee? I imagine pretty much every employee at Twitter is an ideologue because I have doubts that a non-ideologue would be able to stomach working there.

I've never encountered someone in tech who didn't have some kind of ideology. What is particularly troubling to you about the ideology of the people laid off?

> What is particularly troubling to you about the ideology of the people laid off?

If I were a shareholder I'd say that it isn't compatible with capitalism and I feel that would be a sufficient answer.

What is "it"? As in the ideology, both what it is and what about it is troubling. You didn't answer the question.

You know exactly what "it" is.

You must be one of those folks who struggles to understand other people have a different experience, different priorities, and different knowledge and that you have to actually communicate the thing in your brain if you want other people to know it.

I understand, but I really have no idea what you're talking about. I'm not tapped into the Twitter meta.

Is there any evidence these layoffs are targeted at "ideologists"?

Slightly controversial, but I think most companies could cut the fat from their talent team by 30% and their hiring pipeline would not change. I’ve seen firsthand how a lot of recruiters operate and it’s remarkable how inefficient they can be.

I’ll second those questions; I work at Twitter and am on vacation at the moment. I saw this and immediately checked my work email and major slack channels and I see no signs of any layoffs being announced. It’s possible the person claiming it has some inside information or that the layoffs are targeting specific departments and not mine I suppose, but I’d love to see a second source or more detailed information.

For all we know, maybe a dozen recruiters were laid off during a hiring freeze. Which sucks but says nothing about the job security for the rest of the company or general company health.

And for all we know, this person isn't giving the correct information regarding blackout windows.

I saw a Linkedin post from a recruiting coordinator who was laid off.

Edit: This was a different person than the author of the submitted post. Uff da.

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