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Apparently He laid off the data engineering team. That term is pretty vague, anyone know what they do?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-...

Edit: this may have been a prank.

That is discussed in this thread, but it's not clear what's going on with that story (comments are saying it was a prank, and the originally submitted tweet has been deleted):

Departing Twitter employees say layoffs have started as Elon Musk takes over - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374597 - Oct 2022 (108 comments)

That sounds like the move of someone who wants specifically-selected very loyal people designing systems which would tell you what's actually happening on the platform.

Who knows if that rumor is true, but it would be another red flag with Elon's approach. I can understand clearing out the old leadership team on day 1, but how quickly could Musk possibly know that there is no one on this team that could provide value to Twitter with different management or in some other role? Shooting first and asking questions later is not a good approach to managing a billion-dollar company.

Typically a lot of investigations into products and teams already take place before close. This was a weird acquisition though, so who knows if that actually was possible beforehand.

Yes, but there is a difference between "I don't think what this team is currently working on provides value to the company" and "I don't think this team or anyone on it can provide value to the company". That second viewpoint is much more definitive and should require more time and evidence to reach.

Funny how we give advice on how to manage a billion dollar company to guy who owns 2 of these . I’m not sure how many do you own, but I unfortunately don’t have any.

The idea that only people who have done a job can criticize a person doing that job is silly. We all can criticize the President for example without having led a country. Isn't that principle supposedly the underlying reason Musk bought Twitter?

Since it looks like it was a prank and he didn't actually do this, it seems like good advice.

High chance it's a prank.

https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672

I think this might be a prank. One of the guy is saying his name is Rahul Ligma lmao

Not specific to Twitter but as I understand it. Generally a data engineering team will setup the pipelines and ETL processes to turn transactional data into aggregate data necessary to run analytics.

Yeah which seems like a bland day-one target.

Maybe it was a prank but there is strong reason to believe that he'd want to use his Dojo AI engine to do heavy data engineering for twitter. that may mean some overlap & slightly different technical profile than existing team. Oh and um .. Loyalists!

This story looks like it was a hoax, it has an editors note now.

This might have been a prank.

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