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Comment by bearjaws | Hacker News Reader

How much did Twilio grow from 2020-2022?

Over 200%: from 2,800 staff to 8,510 ...

This means this 11% reduction leaves them at... 292% growth since 2020, while its not amazing news, this is a small reduction given the growth they've had.

These layoffs were inevitable IMO, everyone doubled their team (or more!) and then asked where the money was going to come from.

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How the **CK are these companies training and onboarding and managing all these new hires in such short a time frames?

By hiring additional 'resources' to train and onboard and manage all these new hires

It's *CKing crazy. Reminds me of government

That is why we see layoffs like these. You just layoff the people that didn’t successfully self onboard and/or are unqualified but slipped through your screening.

This is almost all of it. Anyone (even incompetent managers) can identify productive employees after working with them for a few months/year. And all the interview processes in the world aren't entirely effective in finding them before.

So if you're flush with cash just wildly overhire and then let go those you couldn't find a place for. And that won't even necessarily be all the "bad hires" because most people can do some job well, you just need to transfer them to it. (Otherwise you have to admit that there are people not fit for working at all, and they must starve in the street or something.)

I thought you couldn't lay someone off for performance reasons.

Really dehumanizing hiring practices. I recently interviewed with Twilio and they wanted me to do an online coding challenge before I even got to speak to a hiring manager to know if I wanted the job. Same thing Amazon does.

Companies that do this are waving a big red parachute in your face.

I work in finance and every finance employer requires some sort of pre-req or onsite test during a serious 1st/2nd round interview.

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