Twitter CEO Elon Musk is reportedly laying off employees across sales and engineering departments. Picture: Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Elon Musk is still laying off Twitter employees as dozens of workers across sales and engineering departments were laid off last week, including one of Musk’s direct reporting executives who was managing engineering for Twitter’s ads business.
It means that the new Twitter CEO has done at least three rounds of lay-offs, according to “The Verge”.
This is happening despite his promise not to sack more employees after his brutal lay-off exercise in November that affected two-thirds of the micro-blogging platform’s 7 500 employees.
At a meeting with employees, Musk had claimed that Twitter is now hiring for positions in engineering and sales. He also asked the staffers to recommend potential candidates.
However, Musk is sacking employees every now and then.
Twitter has also shut down two of its three India offices and directed its employees to work from home, as part of Elon Musk’s mission to cut costs and turn the struggling social media service to be profitable.
Twitter closed its offices in New Delhi and financial hub Mumbai. In November, Musk fired more than 90% of its staff in India, about 200-plus.
Musk has also given a directive internally to revamp how ads are targeted in Twitter’s main feed within a week.
However, Marcin Kadluczka, the laid-off engineering manager for monetisation who reported directly to Musk, tweeted this is not possible.
“I believe Twitter can really improve ads in 2 – 3 months (not necessarily in a week though),” Kadluczka said.
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