If I was Facebook or any other competitor, I would swoop in and poach everyone that is actually still there, mostly people afraid to leave because of visa issues etc.
Facebook just laid off more than an entire Twitter’s worth of employees.
Because visa employees are basically shackled to their organization. They stupidly cheap compared to a fare market value. There's probably like 1000 at most, and not all of them will bite. It would be a cheap way to get really reliable and CHEAP devs to replace the 10k they just dropped.
God knows what is going on on the minds of remaining employees. I guess most of them want to quit but couldn't for variety of reasons (such as visa issues). And some may be too deep in awe of Musk to quit.
…why? Twitter much like Reddit has never been profitable. It’s a sinking ship.
Because Twitter has (had?) skilled engineers. The profitability of a company is likely uncorrelated with the quality of its engineers.